Since I have not seen a post about it:

https://www.posersoftware.com/article/448/whats-planned-for-poser-113-nvidia-rtx-gpu-support?fbclid=IwAR0bjoV8yok6O51rIAxHrk_xHXIoyq9OWRhcL2yP2wGa2JgKHmLHHSQWAZM

Bill

Just posting it here:

This week, we are happy to report that Poser 11.3 will also support the latest NVIDIA RTX (Turing architecture) GPU cards on Windows. This has been a common concern from customers at our support desk, especially those purchasing newer hardware for improved performance with the SuperFly (Cycles-based) render engine.

Oooh that's great news!

Not for me personally as I don't have one of those but I know people have been requesting it.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 4:46PM Wed, 05 February 2020 - #4379194

Oooh that's great news!

Not for me personally as I don't have one of those but I know people have been requesting it.

Same here, but glad to see it for those who do have these cards!

Does that mean Poser11.3 is going to have the current version of the Cycles engine or is it just an update for the GPUs?

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 7:49PM Wed, 05 February 2020 - #4379194

Oooh that's great news!

Not for me personally as I don't have one of those but I know people have been requesting it.

This is fantastic news! I had to get a new laptop back in November, as the 8-yr. old one has about had it, and I purposely told the sales rep I couldn't use the RTX GPU with two of the 3D software apps I use on an almost daily basis, so he replaced it with the latest GTX, BUT, the latest GTX is ALSO running Turing, so I still have to use my CPU when rendering with SuperFly in Poser, and Cycles with Blender. Luckily I don't do final renders in Blender that often, but I do use SuperFly all the time with Poser, so I am thrilled this is being fixed.

Good. I'll let the dust settle for the hardware and the software, and then, I'll go for it.

Great news since i just bought a new rig with the RTX 2080 in it.

This is greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, fantastiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiic news. Man, this makes me super happy right now!

Also, "hundreds of smaller bug fixed"!

I think 11.3 is the update we've been seriously waiting for.

Dev team is happy to report that Poser 11.3 (including RTX support), is now avail to Windows beta testers!

It is great to see Poser moving again.

I'm so curious about those squashed bugs

If its an upgrade to Cycles does that mean that there may be AMD support as well? I'm in the market for an upgrade but holding off for this update. Do I even look at AMD cards?

tim posted at 12:48PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379393

Dev team is happy to report that Poser 11.3 (including RTX support), is now avail to Windows beta testers!

I hope the "RTX Support" will also help those of us with the latest GTX GPUs (for example, GTX 1660ti), which are also having Turing related issues.

its an upgrade to Cycles does that >mean that there may be AMD support >as well

Cycles has alway been hardware agnostic.

However the"experimental" RTX support in Blender 2.8 is strictly a NVIDIA thing.

And the free Radeon pro render engine in blender is

AMD's effort to promote their hardware as well.

Could any of the beta testers report that the missing Cycles nodes are present in the 11.3 update or is that a trade secret?

I'd seriously doubt they're adding new features to the renderer/material room. That would be a big update worth going into the next version, I suspect.

I think it would be unwise to read anything into the announcement other than what is stated, RTX support is being added. It does not say superfly is being updated, rather the RTX drivers are being included. Equally I'm sure they would have said something if they were including the open cl drivers to allow amd cards to be used as this would be a big thing worth trumpeting rather than slipping in unannounced.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 3:28PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379441

I'd seriously doubt they're adding new features to the renderer/material room. That would be a big update worth going into the next version, I suspect.

Adding something they left out is not a new feature. At best it's a bug fix.

Just had a closer look at PP11.3.5... not really visible updates there is the feature that you can look at your Purchases in the library logging into your account. the Installer will make sure to make a complete uninstall of your previous versions a full clean up , no alternate options!

I noted that it somehow messed up older versions of Poser on the machine but might also be a glitch. then rann a test with a Python collection D3d Pythons all dead and many others that get mostly a bad magic number might be over 80% of pytons that were working in SM Poser 11 ! A byt a shame as it naturally also affects older 2ond skin packages and material setups that have Python support. these get mostly useless.I did not check the Surreality Pyton based dolls jet and quiet some other fabulous packages for V4 if there would be an issue with the Pythons then for sure it would be a sad loss of outstanding Products. These would all get useless in Poser.

might be something they have to consider making a roll back to get these Pythons working again, allot of great Python creators do not release further updates and there are almost no new releases of useful py apps that were making life easy, so the old ones could be of great value. A big stepp backwards if they would not !

So no Juheeee or Huraaa for that beta release from what I can see

Nails60 posted at 3:23PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379443

I think it would be unwise to read anything into the announcement other than what is stated, RTX support is being added. It does not say superfly is being updated, rather the RTX drivers are being included. Equally I'm sure they would have said something if they were including the open cl drivers to allow amd cards to be used as this would be a big thing worth trumpeting rather than slipping in unannounced.

THIS ^?

EClark1894 posted at 5:46PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379456

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 3:28PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379441

I'd seriously doubt they're adding new features to the renderer/material room. That would be a big update worth going into the next version, I suspect.

Adding something they left out is not a new feature. At best it's a bug fix.

We've been explained in these forums before that the nodes that weren't included required changes in the very way Poser's interface is coded. Mostly it's nodes that allow input like curves etc.

Micromesh displacement wasn't included because it didn't exist in cycles at the time Superfly was created and released.

Those wouldn't be bug fixes.

Azath posted at 5:48PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379458

Just had a closer look at PP11.3.5... not really visible updates there is the feature that you can look at your Purchases in the library logging into your account. the Installer will make sure to make a complete uninstall of your previous versions a full clean up , no alternate options!

Huh, I wasn't aware you were a beta tester.

Azath posted at 4:53PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379458

Just had a closer look at PP11.3.5... not really visible updates there is the feature that you can look at your Purchases in the library logging into your account. the Installer will make sure to make a complete uninstall of your previous versions a full clean up , no alternate options!

I noted that it somehow messed up older versions of Poser on the machine but might also be a glitch. then rann a test with a Python collection D3d Pythons all dead and many others that get mostly a bad magic number might be over 80% of pytons that were working in SM Poser 11 ! A byt a shame as it naturally also affects older 2ond skin packages and material setups that have Python support. these get mostly useless.I did not check the Surreality Pyton based dolls jet and quiet some other fabulous packages for V4 if there would be an issue with the Pythons then for sure it would be a sad loss of outstanding Products. These would all get useless in Poser.

might be something they have to consider making a roll back to get these Pythons working again, allot of great Python creators do not release further updates and there are almost no new releases of useful py apps that were making life easy, so the old ones could be of great value. A big stepp backwards if they would not !

So no Juheeee or Huraaa for that beta release from what I can see

So, if you're a beta tester, you just violated the NDA.

If you're not, you're just full of shit.

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For future reference: Poser's installer usually requests a complete uninstall when you try to install a version you already have.

Not being someone who usually defends Azath, but if you go to the additional content page of the poser 11.2 downloads there is an beta installer fdated 6th Feb.

Then why did Tim say it was for beta testers?

I didn't even check because of that.

Well I stand corrected on the version, even though it's still downloading for me.

However, being a BETA release, it's to be expected there will be glitches, requests for uninstall etc - that's what beta versions are for. So that you can help them hunt for problems on a blank slate.

We're being more open with access to the beta installers this time since it's a free upgrade.

@Afrodite-Ohki there a full list of bug fixes circulating that should be posted soon.

tim posted at 6:35PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379469

We're being more open with access to the beta installers this time since it's a free upgrade.

@Afrodite-Ohki there a full list of bug fixes circulating that should be posted soon.

I think a lot of us took that as meaning only the usual crew of testers were checking it might be worth clarifying.

I've downloaded it, but I'm still considering if I'll install - I have a bunch of products in progress, not sure if I can afford risking downtime with beta problems right now. I'll think about it tomorrow, got a promo render cooking right now!

Sadly, I can't test the RTX thing though.

Glitterati3D posted at 6:21PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379463

Azath posted at 4:53PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379458

Just had a closer look at PP11.3.5... not really visible updates there is the feature that you can look at your Purchases in the library logging into your account. the Installer will make sure to make a complete uninstall of your previous versions a full clean up , no alternate options!

I noted that it somehow messed up older versions of Poser on the machine but might also be a glitch. then rann a test with a Python collection D3d Pythons all dead and many others that get mostly a bad magic number might be over 80% of pytons that were working in SM Poser 11 ! A byt a shame as it naturally also affects older 2ond skin packages and material setups that have Python support. these get mostly useless.I did not check the Surreality Pyton based dolls jet and quiet some other fabulous packages for V4 if there would be an issue with the Pythons then for sure it would be a sad loss of outstanding Products. These would all get useless in Poser.

might be something they have to consider making a roll back to get these Pythons working again, allot of great Python creators do not release further updates and there are almost no new releases of useful py apps that were making life easy, so the old ones could be of great value. A big stepp backwards if they would not !

So no Juheeee or Huraaa for that beta release from what I can see

So, if you're a beta tester, you just violated the NDA.

If you're not, you're just full of shit.

What the fuck is just wrong with you .... you sure having a really big issue . as soon as someone places he's opinion you freaking accuse that one of violating and stealing !! but that is the issue with wanna be artists like you are , having a real attention disorder !!! not even able to place out a descent render ... but a mouth full of shit

Same people. Each and every time.

Jesus, give it a rest already.

Guess if they will not get that Corona under control then it sure it will get very Peace-full on earth there will not be much left to argue it is already like a Zombie Holocaust

Deecey posted at 7:15PM Fri, 07 February 2020 - #4379483

Same people. Each and every time.

Jesus, give it a rest already.

But I didn't even say anything... Yet

@ Afrodite-Ohki and Glitterati3D .... see I know very well that you just can not handle any truth, not even reality, always searching a way t discriminate it !! so lets take this little sample and you tell me

Where is the Toilet ????

as much as this could not be considered as funny , as much is your behavior nothing that gives to laugh about, on how you treat Individual meanings

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