I downloaded NVidia's instant nerf some days/a week ago via this GitHub repo. I had downloaded it before, but must have deleted it as my machine is out of space. So, this time I was quite ready to learn more about NERFs. I unzipped the application and its supporting files to the same folder it was downloaded to. The executable does not require any installs, I started it and it ran fine. Though I was not sure what I was looking at. I followed some documentation that suggested how to run the examples, and I followed as indicated. I started with the fox example. It had my machine fans running and I thought I should have expected it because it is a GPU intensive application.
Anyhow, it seemed safe, no lags and the result seemed good. I stopped the training as I was exploring the application. Then, I loaded the armadillo example by double clicking it, and then dragging the example to the instant-ngp application running in the background. This is where things got weird. It did not really load but sort of froze, I thought that was odd, and as I was preparing to cut off further processing, then Visual Studio was launched automatically, and I did not get the usual screen to select a project, instead it seemed to be trying to load a project for me. I forced it to quit, and by then the fans were screaming. Which made me panic a little more. The windows on my machine froze and my computer exhibited signs of running out of memory to process further (some windows were half there, etc).
The armadillo example was only half loaded, but seemed movable. I decided to close instant-ngp and restart my machine. Since then, it seems as though my machine easily overheats. I have been monitoring this for some few days now and looking for software to test my fans. They run, but I have not heard them whir and roar as I am used to hearing them. I suspect they may have been fried. Has anyone else experienced such an issue? It sounds like a hack, using your software as a shadow, but it could also be that your software fried my fans. I should not really be running it again on my machine, but I did, and all examples ran previously seemed to run fine.
Again, there is the problem of the now overheating machine. I am using a re-downloaded application, again from this repo (same download button -- no cloning). I deleted the one that I ran when my machine crashed. I have looked at my windows log files to check for any screaming messages from the OS regarding the incident but I do not find anything useful. So, I cannot post error messages. In short, my fans are fried or my machine incurred physical damage from using this application. I thought it should be resource intensive but running the newly downloaded application and its examples does not seem to consume much of my CPU/GPU, and the temperatures are between 45-60celsius. Yet, the body on physical touch is noticeably hotter than before.
I tried the bunny example and instant-ngp is crashing with no error message that I can capture as of yet. The background terminal shows an error log but closes too fast to be readable. Any help will be appreciated.
==== System ====
Windows 10 OS
NVidia Graphics card
Non-intel/AMD Ryzen CPU
I downloaded NVidia's instant nerf some days/a week ago via this GitHub repo. I had downloaded it before, but must have deleted it as my machine is out of space. So, this time I was quite ready to learn more about NERFs. I unzipped the application and its supporting files to the same folder it was downloaded to. The executable does not require any installs, I started it and it ran fine. Though I was not sure what I was looking at. I followed some documentation that suggested how to run the examples, and I followed as indicated. I started with the fox example. It had my machine fans running and I thought I should have expected it because it is a GPU intensive application.
Anyhow, it seemed safe, no lags and the result seemed good. I stopped the training as I was exploring the application. Then, I loaded the armadillo example by double clicking it, and then dragging the example to the instant-ngp application running in the background. This is where things got weird. It did not really load but sort of froze, I thought that was odd, and as I was preparing to cut off further processing, then Visual Studio was launched automatically, and I did not get the usual screen to select a project, instead it seemed to be trying to load a project for me. I forced it to quit, and by then the fans were screaming. Which made me panic a little more. The windows on my machine froze and my computer exhibited signs of running out of memory to process further (some windows were half there, etc).
The armadillo example was only half loaded, but seemed movable. I decided to close instant-ngp and restart my machine. Since then, it seems as though my machine easily overheats. I have been monitoring this for some few days now and looking for software to test my fans. They run, but I have not heard them whir and roar as I am used to hearing them. I suspect they may have been fried. Has anyone else experienced such an issue? It sounds like a hack, using your software as a shadow, but it could also be that your software fried my fans. I should not really be running it again on my machine, but I did, and all examples ran previously seemed to run fine.
Again, there is the problem of the now overheating machine. I am using a re-downloaded application, again from this repo (same download button -- no cloning). I deleted the one that I ran when my machine crashed. I have looked at my windows log files to check for any screaming messages from the OS regarding the incident but I do not find anything useful. So, I cannot post error messages. In short, my fans are fried or my machine incurred physical damage from using this application. I thought it should be resource intensive but running the newly downloaded application and its examples does not seem to consume much of my CPU/GPU, and the temperatures are between 45-60celsius. Yet, the body on physical touch is noticeably hotter than before.
I tried the bunny example and instant-ngp is crashing with no error message that I can capture as of yet. The background terminal shows an error log but closes too fast to be readable. Any help will be appreciated.
==== System ==== Windows 10 OS NVidia Graphics card Non-intel/AMD Ryzen CPU