hardware + software requirements

[youamer]

hi, would you advise about the HW + SW requirements.

the reason I am asking this is that I am using an old laptop with NVIDIA NVS 4200M card & Intel HD 3000 card built in.

I am also using Blender 2.8 for which you only provide an OpenCL only addon which I tried but it fails to load

thanks in advance

[Dade]

hi, would you advise about the HW + SW requirements.

the reason I am asking this is that I am using an old laptop with NVIDIA NVS 4200M card & Intel HD 3000 card built in.

There has been recently a discussion about hardware, here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1302&start=10

I am also using Blender 2.8 for which you only provide an OpenCL only addon which I tried but it fails to load

Nvidia provides OpenCL drivers for their GPUs, may be your GPU is very old ? Have you tried to upgrade your NVIDIA drivers ? However mobile GPUs are quite slow and usually not suited for rendering tasks (they may produce a lot of heat).

You could also install the Intel OpenCL CPU device (“Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL™ Applications 18.1 for Windows OS (64bit or 32bit)” section of https://software.intel.com/en-us/articl ... cl-drivers). It is mostly useful for testing but you will be able to run any OpenCL application without a GPU.