Great program, but graphics card on fire

This program looks great! I was totally getting into it, but then my girlfriend came in the room and said, "What's that sound?" 'It's my computer" I replied. Then I put my hand by the fan and it was really hot. Then I sniffed and it smelled like burning.

So, while I love the program, I don't dare run it because I don't want to risk frying my computer. This overheating would sometimes happen with Sculptris, but generally I can run graphics programs without this problem.

Hope you can resolve this so I can experiment with the program. I've been doing digital impasto for about a decade, and your program looks like it has the best potential (assuming I can work large scale with it, at some point). I'm dying to play around with it more, but after even 5 minutes, my computer is just too hot.

Check out my impasto digital paintings if interested: http://artofericwayne.com/digital-painting/

[Taron]

Hi Eric,
man, I would love to see what you'd do with Verve! Great stuff on your gallery there!
I'm afraid there's very little I can do to keep your current system from heating up a little much and virtually nothing as long as I don't know what system you are running!
So...ahm...what are your graphics card specs?

I'm about to buy myself a little transitional card for around 370 Euro and I'm looking forward to reporting about how it behaves.

I've got the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630. I don't know if it's any good or not.

Yeah, I'd like to try doing some really Expressionist impasto paintings with the software. I guess it's something to look forward to somewhere down the line.

[Taron]

JUST TODAY I got an Nvidia Gforce GTX 970, which is utterly awesome!!! I'm really thrilled about it! It normally costs around 370 Euro, so it really isn't very expensive, but it currently blows my old Nvidia Quadro 5000 well out of the water, which was probably close to 10 times the price, hehe...okok, some years ago, but still. Wow!

So, yeah, currently that's a card I would totally recommend!

Also, I forgot to mention, I like playing a game called "warframe", and this thing always had my card on its knees, huffing and puffing...I wonder, if that actually destroyed it besides the amount of dust that had gathered in its fan. That's something you should keep checking, too. My fan in the Quadro was literally closed up!

Awsome Taron
So now you can give us some serious Verve benchmark expectations with your new kick ass card?

[Taron]

I'm afraid this might make it worse for lesser cards, haha.... DOH!
Nah...it isn't nearly a high-end card anyway, so...yeah.

Yes I have since november/december a 970GTX too its great for VERVE (and other programs like 3DCoat).
Only a GTX980 would be better or a professional GPU ... but I'm okay with the 970 much much better like my old GTX 550Ti

[Taron]

Ok, I've just goofed around and went to 5120x5120 and the Nvidia Gforce GTX 970 thinks for a second and then goes: OK, go ahead!
OMG. So.... for around 370 Euro (even 330 Euro at some discount) today you can get this card and should be able to tackle 4k with Verve at ease and could go beyond it with a tiny bit of patience and probably no big desires for layers, I'd imagine. But, yeah... it's awesome!
By the way, I really got the cheapest brand, I think (Inno3d). It "only" comes with a 2 year warranty, but then... in 2 years it'll be obsolete again, I could imagine, haha...so... better brands give you one more year, like we do care so much.

Anyway, I'm happy!

OMG
Taron
f-f-f-f-ff-fff-five k?
5k?
Cinq k?
oh baby
with full fluids?
FULL OUT FLUIDS?
and she goes?
oh baby…...
This is a game changer!
Ahhhhh wait
but can you save and re-open it?
no dreaded error message?
questions questions questions
Vive la Verve
Can you save a 5k image and post a link for us to check out ?
Better yet a short video showing behaviour while pushing the limits?
I want it all
and I wan it now!
ok ok ok…...
now breeeeeaaaathe

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[Taron]

Whahahaha...I haven't even tried saving, yet....hmmm... hold on! OOOOOPS! Nope... 5120x5120 crashed saving. BUT I know what it is and will fix it!
I meant to change saving into more sensitive scan segments a long time ago, but it wasn't too pressing, yet. Now it will really be worth it! But it will slowdown saving a bit, of course.