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Sapphire 7.5 is not intended for Sapphire 7.0 users. Sapphire 7.5 grants owners of Sapphire 9 the ability to work in a mixed environment with Sapphire 7 systems. Sapphire 7.5 uses the Sapphire 9 activation key, and not the Sapphire 7 serial number.
The "Help" dialog now has an "email Support" button that takes you to a form. The s_log_extended.text file will automatically be included when using this form. Or The diagnostic log file can be found here: * On Mac, the file is in: /Applications/G...
Your machine ID is your Ethernet ID/MAC address: 6 pairs of numbers and letters A-F. You may see the pairs un-separated (d312a930bc7f), separated by colons (d3:12:a9:30:bc:7f) or separated by dashes (d3-12-a9-30-bc-7f). * On Mac, go to System Preferenc...
The following are support: * Flame 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 running on Linux * Flint, Inferno 2012 running on Linux * Flare 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 running on Linux * Flame Assist 2015 running on Linux * Smoke 2012 / 2013 / 2014 running on ...
If you install a new host application on your machine, you will need to re-install your plug-ins afterwards, so the new application can locate them.
All NVIDIA CUDA GPUs with compute capability 1.3 or later (see https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus [https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus]) are supported. This should include all NVIDIA GPUs produced after 2010. Newer cards with more compute cores and...
No, Sapphire will only utilize a single CUDA GPU.
A CUDA card is detected (GPU is enabled), but all GPU renders fail immediately. * On Linux, add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf and then reboot: options myri10ge myri10ge_pat_idx=1
This can occur if Sapphire plug-ins are not installed properly, or they were copied over from another machine instead of being installed at all. The solution is to just re-install from http://www.genarts.com/support/downloads/sapphire/autodesk-v7.5 [http:...
You may have a corrupt setup file for that spark. Type these commands to a shell, but replace "LensFlare" with the spark name that is not working. (The setupch file only exists in some cases.) % cd /usr/discreet/sparks/sapphire_7 % mv S_LensFlare.spark....
There is a known bug in the 260.19.29 NVIDIA driver that causes Sapphire to crash in all Autodesk products if Sapphire uses the GPU. The solution is to upgrade your NVIDIA driver to 260.19.44 or later.
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When you run the Sapphire v7.5 installer, you will be prompted "Would you like to help us improve Sapphire by sending us anonymous usage data periodically?", you can leave the question checked for "yes" or unchecked for "no". If you would like to manual...