Happy New Year everyone !
I recently built a PC primarily as a reasonably high performance creative rig. I compose music and also photography.
My photography throws a lot of work to the computer, as I'm rendering & merging hundreds of RAW files at a time into a single file (focus-stacking, if anyone's aware of that.
Last few days has been my fist change to get into it, and I'm noticing that mmost of the work is being done by the CPU. It's running at 100% for 15 minutes at at a time ! I would like to allocate the tasks to other resources.
So I've come across 'OpenCL' but having a hard time working out how to turn it on. Here's the vitals:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD Radeon RX 7600
64GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM
And the rendering software I'm using is a specialized app called Helicon Focus - which DOES support OpenCL, but when I try to turn it on, the popup screen tells me I need to install drivers.
I have reinstalled AMD Adrenaline (AMD's links to drivers always ends up at Adrenaline) but cannot see anything about OpenCL
Also wondering if I can throw some of the work to the RAM ?
This is where my understanding fails. I don't know the first thing about what this is, but it seems that I need it.
What do I need to do in order to get this going ? There are a few smattering of info around the interwebs, that mention third-party software from unknown developers (unknown to me at least). And I'm VERY cautious about installing random stuff, and keep a lean, clean machine as much as possible.
Here's the performance dashboard during a render. Is it even safe to run my CPU at 100% and 85+ degrees constantly for 15 minutes at a time ?
I recently built a PC primarily as a reasonably high performance creative rig. I compose music and also photography.
My photography throws a lot of work to the computer, as I'm rendering & merging hundreds of RAW files at a time into a single file (focus-stacking, if anyone's aware of that.
Last few days has been my fist change to get into it, and I'm noticing that mmost of the work is being done by the CPU. It's running at 100% for 15 minutes at at a time ! I would like to allocate the tasks to other resources.
So I've come across 'OpenCL' but having a hard time working out how to turn it on. Here's the vitals:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD Radeon RX 7600
64GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM
And the rendering software I'm using is a specialized app called Helicon Focus - which DOES support OpenCL, but when I try to turn it on, the popup screen tells me I need to install drivers.
I have reinstalled AMD Adrenaline (AMD's links to drivers always ends up at Adrenaline) but cannot see anything about OpenCL
Also wondering if I can throw some of the work to the RAM ?
This is where my understanding fails. I don't know the first thing about what this is, but it seems that I need it.
What do I need to do in order to get this going ? There are a few smattering of info around the interwebs, that mention third-party software from unknown developers (unknown to me at least). And I'm VERY cautious about installing random stuff, and keep a lean, clean machine as much as possible.
Here's the performance dashboard during a render. Is it even safe to run my CPU at 100% and 85+ degrees constantly for 15 minutes at a time ?