Glitterati3D posted at 2:14PM Thu, 27 June 2019 - #4355005

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 1:59PM Thu, 27 June 2019 - #4355003

What other choice is there? SM had over a year to get SF compatible with Turing, but nothing ever came out of it and as of now it makes SF a dead end and a major problem for anyone looking to upgrade their GPU from Pascal. You saw the threads that were starting to become common on the SM forums, every week there was a question of why someones new video card wasn't working for SF and the answer was always the same.

I don't know if SM was unwilling to add that functionality to SF or they simply couldn't due to SF's implementation, but I don't think SM would purposely not add in functionality that would extend Posers life cycle. So I'm assuming that it's technically not a feasible feat with what we have right now. Though I'd love to be proven wrong and have a new update for PP11 that gives us support for Turing cards because being forced to use old hardware that's become even more expensive than the newer hardware is pathetic.

I honestly can't say for sure what was going on behind the scenes, but from what I picked up in general conversation my guess would be that SM didn't implement that just because SM didn't implement much of anything into Poser in the last couple of years.

My guess is (and I am guessing, I have no insider information) that SM knew the sale was ongoing and they had no intention of devoting resources to Poser for anything. A sale like this does not happen overnight - no doubt it's been in the works for some time.

For some time, "Ol' Elwood" as I called him gave me the impression he was the only soul working on anything Poser.

Hahah Ol' Elwood is a wonderful name for him. Now I picture a tired old Sheriff in a dust bowl of a town, sitting in front of the ol' jailhouse, on a laptop from 1997 typing replies to us on the SM forums sighing every time he reads a comment asking about adding new features.

Like I said, I would loooove to be proven wrong. Being able to render in SF with Turing would be a game changer for me and probably anyone else who wants to use SF but can't atm because they don't have Pascal or Maxwell.