Bugzilla – Bug 1226377
The Tumbleweed package of Blender is missing OptiX support
Last modified: 2024-07-01 16:04:58 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Build Identifier: The package blender-4.1.1-1.1 has no support for OptiX, even though the version from blender.org works on the same system. GPU: RTX 4060 Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240612 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5 Kernel Version: 6.9.3-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Graphics Manufacturer: SLIMBOOK Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Blender from YaST 2. Launch Blender 3. Go to settings > System Actual Results: There is no OptiX tab in settings and no way to render with optix Expected Results: OptiX is recognized just like on the standalone version
Yes, this is a known issue. Unlike CUDA support, adding OptiX support requires us to include some specific NVIDIA headers. Some people believe, that including the nvidia-optix-headers into our official build infringe copyright law. Despite this, I'm doing it in the blender builds of my home project: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:frispete:blender You're free and welcomed to use this version, of course. I'm specifically interested in any issues using the Wayland platform. Offending headers can be downloaded here: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/redist/optix/v7.4/OptiX-7.4.0-Include.zip Although NVIDIA makes these headers publicly available for precisely this purpose, they have "overlooked" to adapt the copyright headers accordingly. For a discussion with the Blender developers, see: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/blender-2-8-cycles-optix-packaging/12533/12 Since these are C++ Headers containing inline code, one can argue, that this produces code (as being done by Stefan Brüns in that discussion). If you have an idea, how to bug NVIDIA on that, let me know! Or you can find a way to get Stefan Brüns to relent. Until that happens, I unfortunately have to close this issue as "WONTFIX".