Janis Robens

ebenfred
Is there a way to know if we need to pre-compile as a reminder ?
cheers,
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It should tell you shader cache out of date in top right in the viewport.

Heileif

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Good to know people are making use of the pre-compile feature in anycase

Pre-compile feature is the biggest upgrade for me in Houdini 21, that I notice everyday.

I second that! The long ttfp XPU used to have was really harming productivity. Precompiling shaders is the very first thing I do after updating drivers because I really don't want to use XPU without it anymore. Looking over at other renderers I believe there is room for even more optimization in this regard to make XPU even more responsive.

Thanks so much for the helpful update. Guess I'm gonna do the little precompile dance with the new daily then and then in a couple days once again when the new driver releases haha. At least it doesn't take thaaaat long on a 4090. Kinda ironic that that a driver with the version number "590" has some issues 😅 BTW: Do you think it would make sense it's be an option to offer the cache as an optional download with Houdini? I know that everyone has different GPUs and drivers and all but maybe just for a handful of cards like the 80s and 90s of the current and last gen and only for the current driver that's available at the time? I believe the cache is not that big, around 6GB. I'm sure many would appreciate that.