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I have the Founder Edition.
Thanks for responding, Mike, I really appreciate that. I was actually referring to this thread of yours: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/360461/upgraded-to-rtx-2080-ti-now-unable-to-render-in-iray
I have recently updated Windows 10 to 20H2, though I never had problems updating my nVidia drivers even in 1904. I've also tried updating my MB bios and even my GPU firmware, but am still seeing the same issue. I've recently reached out to EVGA and they're telling me it's up to the software developer to integrate GPU support, which I can understand but am also suspicious of since even nVidia's own IRAY server errors out with the same "Unsupported ABI version." Plus... this was working in a previous Daz Studio version... I'm thinking maybe they've recently updated the OptiX version or something and my particular brand of card isn't compatible with it - maybe it's something the Daz devs need make an exception for and fallback to an older OptiX version or something.
Well, that's my problem - thanks again for responding though.
Ah - so NVIDIA itself is the manufacturer? I guess I should've gone with that. I didn't suspect that my "Black Edition Gaming" might mean spotty IRAY support - I just thought CUDA cores were CUDA cores.
Maybe you should post your question here;
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/professional-graphics-and-rendering/advanced-graphics/optix/167
Attach this info
Good call, PerttiA - I've started a topic where you've linked.
Oh, for what it's worth, I ran a scan with Malwarebytes and aside from a few false positives didn't find anything alarming (if I understood what you meant by "unwanted miners"). I've also since updated Windows, my MB BIOS and my GPU firmware, all to no effect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have to thank you again, PerttiA - your suggestion to post on the NVIDIA forums (which for some reason I hadn't really thought of before) paid off: An employee ("NVIDIA Iray and OptiX lead & development," evidently) responded with:
Sure enough, I found copies of both nvoptix.dll and nvrtum64.dll in both my Windows\System32 folder and a Windows\System32\DriverStore subfolder. I moved the ones in Windows\System32 and... that was it! Daz happily started rendering IRAY with my 2080ti! I'm so happy! And relieved: I was thinking I'd need to buy a new GPU.
I have no idea how these dlls ended up there, the NVIDIA employee suggested that maybe some app ended up installing them in this folder as some kind of workaround. Whatever the case, it seems the OS was first finding and serving up these dlls before the ones in the driver store, and I suppose they were old and stinky and didn't support my GPU or something.
Hopefully this helps out anybody having such a frustrating issue. I had been dealing with this for quite some time without finding anything online before reaching out.
Cheers!
Awesome, @Roland1234 glad you got it sorted out.
Glad to be of help
And thank you for updating your post header so everyone will know when they come across it!