Friction Hardware Settings Help

[nuxttux]

Hi - Could I please get some guidance on how to setup the Hardware settings in Friction?
I don't fully understand how it works, what it all means.

• Acceleration preference slider.
• Hardware agnostic?
• Multisample anti-aliasing.
• Raster Effects.

[rodlie]

Yeah, this should be documented 😄

Acceleration slider

The slider sets the preffered device to process/render on, either CPU or GPU. Some effects are CPU-only, some are GPU-only (external shaders), some supports both (the included effects).

• CPU-only
  • Force anything that support CPU to process on CPU-only
• CPU-preffered
  • We prefer to use the CPU, but allow GPU if the feature prefer it
• GPU-preffered
  • We prefer to use the GPU, but allow CPU if the feature prefer it
• GPU-only
  • Force anything that support GPU to process on GPU-only

Path GPU acceleration

This is for pathbox, if checked then it defaults to cpu preffered (but supports GPU), else CPU-only.

MAA

This is important for antialias on lines and text. If you have NVIDIA (Kepler+), Apple, Radeon set it to 16x. If you have Intel GPU stay on 4x. If you have NVIDIA Fermi or older use 4x.

Raster Effects

Override the slider for each included effect.

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Some GPU features/combos may produce artifacts during render, I recommend setting everything to CPU. I may set CPU-only as default before next release. The performance pentaly is minimal (we use AVX on CPU) compared to possible artifacts etc.

[nuxttux]

Thank you. I have an 8th Gen i5 intel. I have gotten some artifacts for some renders, not knowing why - usually when using my custom made shaders. I have no dedicated GPU.

I take it that I should keep the MAA to 4x and set the rest to CPU-only or CPU preferred.

[rodlie]

Set everything to CPU-only and MAA to 4x.

I use a 7th gen laptop with the same (Intel) GPU, that works for me.

Custom shaders are GPU-only, so there might be some issues with some GPUs (shaders usually works best with NVIDIA in my experience).

[nuxttux]

All right, will do. Thanks again.