We are urgently need this feature

Something like this should work:

import bpy

scene = bpy.context.scene
scene.cycles.device = 'GPU'

prefs = bpy.context.user_preferences
cprefs = prefs.addons['cycles'].preferences

# Attempt to set GPU device types if available
for compute_device_type in ('CUDA', 'OPENCL', 'NONE'):
    try:
        cprefs.compute_device_type = compute_device_type
        break
    except TypeError:
        pass

# Enable all CPU and GPU devices
for device in cprefs.devices:
    device.use = True

Thanks @Brecht Van Lommel (brecht)!

@joel heethaar (joel_nl) I've added Brecht's script to Flamenco Worker, to the T53099-gpu-rendering branch, but I haven't created anything around that yet. Can you test that the script works by adding --enable-autoexec --python "/path/to/flamenco-worker/flamenco_worker/enable_all_gpus.py" to the blender variable in your flamenco-manager.yaml?

Adding the script to my blender variable in flamenco-manager.yaml works for me.

@Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) I previously haven't had a chance to test this script properly. For now we are working with Backburner as our main render farm tool. We would like to use Flamenco though. But it is not very compatible with our Windows network. Everytime we try to work with Flamenco we run into strange issues.

I've tested this script though and it works fine. Now we need a checkbox or something in the Flamenco panel to activate it or something. Thanks...

In T54099#593120, @Dennis Teusink (Teus) wrote:

@Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) I previously haven't had a chance to test this script properly. For now we are working with Backburner as our main render farm tool. We would like to use Flamenco though. But it is not very compatible with our Windows network. Everytime we try to work with Flamenco we run into strange issues.

Please make sure that you have the latest Blender Cloud add-on 1.11.0 (just released) as it contains Windows and Blender 2.8 fixes. If you still see issues, please provide us with a proper bug report.

I've tested this script though and it works fine.

That is good to know.

Now we need a checkbox or something in the Flamenco panel to activate it or something. Thanks...

Why? As @A K (campino) said you can just add it to the Flamenco Manager config.

Please make sure that you have the latest Blender Cloud add-on 1.11.0 (just released) as it contains Windows and Blender 2.8 fixes. If you still see issues, please provide us with a proper bug report.

We will.

I think the same problem is occurring as that path resolve thing here Projects on mapped network drives fail.

When i change the script location to a network drive and set the variable in the yaml file
windows: S:/!Apz/Blender/Flamenco Blender 2.79/Blender/Blender.exe --python //rackstation/software/!Apz/Blender/enable_all_gpus.py

it returns this.

OSError: Python file "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\flamenco-worker-2.1.0-windows\//RACKSTATION/software/!Apz/Blender/enable_all_gpus.py" could not be opened: No such file or directory

It doesn't matter if i use a drive letter, backslashes or forward slashes. If i put it between quotation marks, like in the documentation, the manager won't even run.

I recommend not using any exclamation marks in your path. Also only use mapped network drives (so S:/ instead of //rackstation/software), as // means something else to Blender. That, and of course T60131 should be fixed.

Also only use mapped network drives (so S:/ instead of rackstation/software), as means something else to Blender. That, and of course T60131 should be fixed.

That why i tried every which version i know of url. Nothing worked. This version was with the slashes...

I recommend not using any exclamation marks in your path.

Ok... That worked. Which is weird because the path to Blender itself also contains an exclamation mark. Don't know why it works but it does. so i'm happy. We are changing the structure of our Software/Install server anyway. It is a mess. This folder for instance is like 20 years old. :)

Thanks for all the help!

Hi,

I currently have the script that @Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) wrote. Then using the command line on windows im running:

blender.exe blender_scenes\bmw27\bmw27_gpu.blend -b -f 0 -P GPURender.py

I see the python script gets executed as I put print statements to make sure it actually runs. However, looking at my task manager, the cpu usage is still 100%.

Can someone help as to why this is not making my GPU do the rendering?

Thanks for the help!

Hi, having the same problem...

On a headless Virtual Machine in the cloud running Ubuntu 18.04 installation with CUDA and NVIDIA drivers all installed and showing up correctl.

Using Blender 2.8 but file continues to render on CPU,

Here's the command line

./blender -b /shots/xxxx/GPU_RenderTest.blend -f 1 -P use_gpu.py

this is the use_gpu.py python file

import bpy

# force rendering to GPU
bpy.context.scene.cycles.device = 'GPU'
cpref = bpy.context.preferences.addons['cycles'].preferences
cpref.compute_device_type = 'CUDA'
# Use GPU devices only
cpref.get_devices()
for device in cpref.devices:
    device.use = True if device.type == 'CUDA' else False

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Simon

You can run Blender with --debug-cycles to see what it is doing, and also check that there is no Python error in executing that script.

The example script I gave was a simple example, for use in production it needs error handling and verification there is actually a CUDA device, and if not abort rendering.