Maniphest T58148

Cycles GPU rendering not working properly GTX Titan (?misses light path bounces)
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Assigned To
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo)
Authored By
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl)
Nov 29 2018, 1:51 PM
Tags
  • Cycles
  • BF Blender: 2.8
  • Render Pipeline
Subscribers
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht)
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl)
Paul Melis (paulmelis)
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo)

Description

System Information
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
GPU: GTX Titan 6GB
Graphics driver: 415.18
Cuda version: 10.0

Blender Version
Broken: Blender 2.8 8850875866a
Worked: Blender 2.79b

Short description of error

The rendering doesn't work properly on my GTX Titan with Cycles. Somehow hit looks like bounces are terminated or something or the light information in the rays is not stored properly. As a result the reflections and refractions turn out black, easily visible in the glass cube but also the green of the cube is not reflected on the plane underneath.

I have no problems with Blender 2.79b there Cycles renders properly.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  • Set Cycles Compute Device in User preferences to CUDA capable device GTX Titan
  • Select GPU in rendering settings
  • Render image



glass28test.blend566 KBDownload

Related Objects

Mentioned Here
T56858: Cycles: Cuda 9.2 and 10 Issues.
rB8850875866a6: Fix transform axis orientation cycling

Event Timeline

Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) created this task.Nov 29 2018, 1:51 PM
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) renamed this task from Cycles GPU rendering not working properly (?misses light path bounces) to Cycles GPU rendering not working properly GTX Titan (?misses light path bounces).Nov 29 2018, 2:01 PM
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) updated the task description.
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) added a project: BF Blender: 2.8.Nov 29 2018, 2:35 PM
Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to High.Nov 29 2018, 2:39 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) raised the priority of this task from High to 90.Nov 29 2018, 2:54 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added a subscriber: Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo).

please do not assign priority your self.

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Nov 29 2018, 2:56 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) claimed this task.

also that's a cuda 10 bug, use 9.1 and you'll be allright.

Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) added a comment.Nov 29 2018, 3:17 PM

With you closing this bug, I might assume that is already in the progress of fixing? Will CUDA 10 ever be supported?

Sorry for the priority setting, didn't know that was not allowed.

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added a comment.Nov 29 2018, 3:21 PM

It's a bug in cuda10(some cards)/9.2(all cards) we cannot work around, nvidia has been informed, there's nothing we can do on our side, so no need to keep a ticket open.

Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) added a comment.Nov 29 2018, 3:23 PM

Just had another look I have now version 9.1, its still not working and it was a prebuild version of Blender downloaded from the blender.org website, doesn't that come with CUDA itself?

Still it is not working on my system.

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Nov 29 2018, 3:29 PM

if 9.1 doesn't work, it's definitely a different bug, opening back up.

Christopher_Anderssarian edited projects, added Render Pipeline; removed BF Blender.Nov 29 2018, 9:48 PM
Paul Melis (paulmelis) added a subscriber: Paul Melis (paulmelis).Dec 3 2018, 1:04 PM

@Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) So just to get some clearity, the known CUDA bug you mentioned only applies to 2.80 (while 2.79 used different CUDA code and isn't affected)? And it's now up to NVIDIA to fix this? How does that go together with Blender's apparent policy of trying to keep the used CUDA version low, so older GPUs can still be used? NVIDIA won't release any fix in CUDA 9.x anymore, I suspect.

And using CUDA 9.1 isn't a very attractive solution, as most Linux distros these days come with 9.2 or even 10, as 9.1 is already a year old.

Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) added a comment.Dec 3 2018, 1:04 PM

Apologies, I was looking at the wrong CUDA version I think. My driver version was still 10.0 and my runtime version was 9.1. But here is the problem I have.. The driver versions are coupled with the graphics driver somehow, I can't figure out how to install the CUDA driver version to a year older version without downgrading my graphics driver to a year old version...

I irks me that my 2.79 version works perfectly with CUDA 10 installed but 2.8 not, that 2.8 with CUDA 10 works perfectly on my laptop but not on my workstation and that I have to install a year old graphics driver in order to use the newest version of Blender, that doesn't make sense.

Do you have any information, thread or bug report which I can follow which shows the CUDA problems with blender? I am very curious on the why's and how's of this whole issue, because something like this needs to be working properly.

Casper van Leeuwen (casperl) added a comment.Dec 7 2018, 5:33 PM

@Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) it seems to be fixed in the blender 2.8 beta!! @Paul Melis (paulmelis) can you confirm that it also works for you?

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added a comment.Dec 7 2018, 6:21 PM

there's some background on the cuda 9.1/10 issue in T56858 but as i said earlier if 9.1 doesn't work for this issue, it's very likely a different issue and we shouldn't be mixing the reports cause that'll just confuse everyone.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Dec 7 2018, 6:25 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) added a subscriber: Brecht Van Lommel (brecht).

The Linux buildbot was using CUDA 9.2 for a while apparently, this is fixed now.