ShawnDriscoll posted at 10:59PM Wed, 11 July 2018 - #4332776

Last I checked, the GPU gets used only if toggled on in Vue's render options. And then only if there's an object in your scene that can benefit from GPU maths.

Reason I asked is that I’m rendering a scene with clouds and lots of blurred reflections and different brightness/shininess/anisotropic values (bare metal on an airplane) and all eight cores of the CPU are running at full chat. I leave it rendering and go to work, but upon return the PC has rebooted. After taking a look under the hood I think my culprit is going to be my eight year old (!) 750 watt EVGA PSU. Replacing that with a 1000 watt unit tomorrow morning since I think it was hitting it’s overheat limiter and causing a reboot because it was overtasked. We’ll see if it works...