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    Blender crashes with Eevee

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    powergene1405

    Great course by Kent, from which I learned so much after completing the industrial  parking lot!  For me, Blender crashes with Eevee when I hit F12 (even having lowered details for all noise textures at 3/10.). I have AMD Ellesmere [Radeon Pro WX 7100], with AMDGPU drivers on Manjaro Linux.  Can't tell if it's outdated or not (Blender doesn't see my GPU since 2.9).

    Any hints welcome :)

    Olivier

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Olivier,

      Your GPU should be fine, I think.

      Stupid question, where did you get your Blender from? I'm just asking, because you say your GPU isn't recognized...I had the same issue with a compatible GPU on Linux (OpenSuse), when using the version offered there...Downloading from Blender.org solved that for me.

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    • Omar Domenech(dostovel) replied

      I have found that sometimes when I have a bug like that on my file, if I open a new Blender scene and little by little append objects from the buggy scene, the bug wont come with them and the bug will stay on the buggy file. And also I can make renders as I bring objects along and as I do that, the moment Blender crashes I'm like aha! it only crashed after I brought this object here, you're the problem, gotcha you little criminal. 

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    • Adrian Bellworthy replied

      Hey ppowergene1405,

      Being a rasterization engine, Eevee only uses the power of the GPU to render. There is no plan to support CPU (software) rendering as it would be very inefficient. CPU power is still needed to handle high scene complexity as the geometry must be prepared by the CPU before rendering each frame.
      From blender manual eevee limitations

      Google says your GPU is 7 years old, this maybe an issue.

      Are your GPU drivers up to date?
      Go to AMD-radeon-pro-wx-7100 Drivers scroll down to Linux and select the latest drivers

      Does your GPU show up in Edit > Preferences > System?


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      powergene1405 replied

      Thanks to all for your help and advice.  AAdrian, I unfortunately the linux driver update options don't seem to apply to my particular distro (it's not recognized after downloading it) so I've been a bit stuck like this for some time.  And no, the GPU doesn't even show in the prefs (it used to until blender 2.9)

    • Adrian Bellworthy replied

      Is your OS up to date?
      and have you tried Linux® Drivers for AMD Radeon™ PRO Graphics ? - Scroll down for the pro graphics driver.
      You could also take a look at the Radeon Prorender plug-in , I have used this in the past before I updated my GPU.