Howdy
I usually have rendering/other GPU intensive tasks running, then I may want to start a game at some point, is there a software available that I can on the fly control the amount of GPU resource assigned to a particular application? Say I want to go from 100% Windows managed, to now app1 gets 25%, app2 gets 75%?
Thanks heaps
Can't as mini ITX and eGPU is too much extra, guess I'll just stick to setting render to a lower priority through task manager though no control over any parameters.
Could also just play in a 720p or 1080p window on lower game settings …
The game was just one example, there are times where I'm in another instance of 3d software or doing something particular in Photoshop where it'd be nice to have complete ownership of the GPU for 50% for an hour, without the render saturating all of the GPU then backing off a bit then going balls to the walls whenever the resource is made available.
I tried firing up a VM and taking x amount of VRAM that way for the ad-hoc stuff, but there's the pain of sync of files and licencing issues.
If what you're ren dinging is making you money, or is practice for something that will make you money one day, maybe buy a second machine for gaming or for ren dinging.
ren dinging
…are you trying to say 'rendering'??
However I misspelled rendering was a bit too much for Safari autocorrect.
It's a brand new PC built a year ago for photos which is a small side gig, 3d is a hobbyist thing I picked up again as the previous PC was almost decade old and couldn't do anything, same goes for the games haven't played anything for 5+yrs. It really doesn't make any sense to get a separate PC just to do the rendering in this situation. I otherwise just use an USFF for browser/YT/etc basic stuff.
In principle this should be possible and task schedulers do this for CPUs, but I have yet to see it. Interested to see if you find a solution. If you have an iGPU and the gaming task is quite light the easiest solution is probably to use the iGPU for gaming and the discrete GPU for compute when you want to do this.
Not the way GPUs work, just add a second GPU for gaming …