Upgrading The Hardware
While going full steam ahead (when not at our day job...) with the renders for our September update, we've started looking for upgrades for our system.
Tough our main 3D workstation is a strong Ryzen 9 5950X with 64GB of fast RAM, and a professional 32GB FirePro card, which is very good for Maya and any other software, it is not the best for rendering DAZ IRay scenes, which are what we mainly do these days.
(Quick note: we did quite a few tests with exports to Maya and RenderMan, and Also Radeons' ProRender. They work well, and FAST, but the time it takes to export the scenes and make the adjustments isn't worth it for now. If and when we make enough income here to make this studio our day job, then we'll move the pipeline completely to Maya and Pixar's RenderMan. They look so much better than IRay!)
So We started looking for the over-priced, over-publicized, and over-everything NVidia cards - and we can barely find any available!
WTF?!
What happened to the world?!
We found a 3080 for about 2,500$US, something like 350% of it's MSRP (which is stupid as it is).
WOW!
That's it, just venting :)
We're still going on with our renders, of course, just with an astonished "WTF" look on our faces.
P.S.:
After being so kind and reading all this, we think you deserve something for your trouble.
So here's a (censored) photo from the update.
In the game, the blur is magically more realistic, which means MUCH LESS blurry...
;)
Comments (2)
Sadly with raw material shortages, increases demands and scalpers, prices have spiked like crazy. Currently it's better to look for a pre-built system than looking for a gpu. Good luck with the game and take your time
First, thanks for the understanding. Although I knew a bit about these problems when I built my new Alpha workstation - I had to wait so long for the 5950X, and then payed an arm and a leg for it (WAY above MSRP). But it was many months ago, and I hoped things will get better. But it's actually worse! Anyway, I will find ways to get a new card - it's not only an investment in our studio (albeit an exaggerated one), but also a way to keep the creative process flowing and intuitive. And again, thanks for the understanding and the patience, but we WILL meet the deadline. I know ways... ;)