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Also while we are at this whole CUDA discussion. 3DCoat supports the version bellow. CUDA 3.0 toolkit released March 20th, 2010

Well thats what usually happens http://stackoverflow.com/questions/497685/how-do-you-get-around-the-maximum-cuda-run-time

I've talked to Andrew .. and he said its not worth to bother with CUDA. 30% speedup in particular operations not worth months of work.

That happens because you cannot use the same card for viewport and CUDA. If the CUDA kernel runs too long the driver will time out. Infact the reason it times out the driver is because kernel is tooo long and should be split in to multiple parts. Using two cards you wouldn't get such problem OR edit the registry settings but that can have consequences. That shows you how unoptimized the 3DCoat CUDA kernel is.

Where you getting this from? Have you written a line of code in your life? OpenCL is equally powerfull as CUDA. And it works on CPU,GPU,FPGA,ASIC hardware. Sadly CUDA only works on NVIDIA GPU. All Adobe software support OpenCL. It will continue to rise because it is an Open standard much like OpenGL. Everyone was talking down OpenGL when it was introduced. Now look where it is. Its used in every CG/CAD application on this planet. Infact the next start to rise is OpenRL. Anyway this whole crap with AMD having bad drivers is a total sham. I have a AMD 5570 and 3d coat works perfect with it. OpenGL & DirectX.