GTX 470 CUDA working in OS X Lion?

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Hello!

Has anyone got the 2.63 Blender Cycles working on Mac with CUDA? It did work at some point (when the CPU/GPU option was in the render settings). Now there’s no option to even select computing device. Is it just in a custom build? Im running 10.7.3 hackintosh and 2.63.0 64-bit Blender for 10.6.

Thanks!

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I’m having the same problem with:

  • Blender 2.63
  • an Nvidia 560GTX (compute capability 2.1)
  • the Nvidia 295.53 driver

Pixu, what driver version are you on?

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Apparently Mac builds don’t have CUDA built in. So you have to get CUDA Toolkit and blender will build it. Still no CUDA in blender though - after updating all gfx & cuda drivers (and 10.7.4), Blender wouldn’t let me choose CUDA.

Also, always after reboot, CUDA-Z would not recognize the device - until I installed the CUDA driver again. But still no luck with graphics as Blender computing device.

Solution: Blender 2.63 lets me choose CUDA after installing 4.0.50 Driver instead of 4.2.7. Haven’t tried other CUDA driver versions. GPU Driver Version: 1.3.4.0 (270.00.00f06) OS X 10.7.4. Have to reinstall CUDA driver after every boot though.