PL9 drivers and internal errors

@Fineus Funny you should write that just as I am testing!

So once upon a time I had a 2060(6GB) and a 3060(12GB) and I experienced problems when exporting from the 2060(6GB) but no (or little problems) with the 3060(12GB).

So right or wrong it looked like the 2060’s days were numbered. With my wife’s agreement I purchased an Asus 5060Ti(16GB) which arrived yesterday afternoon and fitted it to the 5900X, the 3060(12GB) had already been moved to the 5600G.

Runs with the 5900X and 5060Ti(16GB) seemed to show massive memory consumption with the 5060Ti with the latest NVidia drivers so I went to the Asus site and downloaded all the drivers available for the 5060Ti and installed the oldest, NVidia release 560.02, and reran my tests.

Before changing drivers a 40 image export with 3 workers took 10,842MB and 2mins 28 seconds, and I have had higher memory usage figures than that!

After changing to the earlier release the memory usage has dropped to 6,697MB and the time was 2mins 33 seconds.

While I doubt it will still work with the 2060(6GB) I might swap back to that GPU later today and retest with the older drivers.

Take from that what you will! but also look at PL9 on older computers. The images in my test come from the Google GPU spreadsheet and are from a Nikon D850 and 25.56MP.

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