simple question about maya, vray and GPU-rendering

[begerdesign]

Hello,

is somebody out there using a mac with osx (not windows) with maya, v-ray (not vray RT) and a nvidia cuda GPU who is able to render with GPU.

If so, please give me the configuration.

Yesterday I tried with different settings, different maya versions, different drivers and different cuda graphics cards. But no configuration works. Best result was that the rendering started but then the rendering stopped and the image became black.

If you have a working configuration, it would be nice, if you could post it.

Thanks a lot

Thomas

[ripster8690]

From what i have researched, this K5000 card is all i can upgrade to using my 2009 mac pro 4,1 computer. 

also, not sure what you are referring to - "4 GB is pretty low for a GPU these days" i was referring to the 1500 cuda cores to render with, not the video memory.

In relation to your comment:

I'll also point out, that rendering any length of animation at 1080p/30 FPS is going to take more than a few days.  That kind of work is normally run on a server or a distributed node arrangement, and will still be multiple days at finish quality.

thats good info to know, thanks

Am thinking about jumping ship with apple, and setting up possibly a mulit card pc

thanks for all your help