FStorm CUDA compatibility requirements

[3DTim]

Hi all,

I would like to know how FStorm and CUDA are related to each other ?

The reason I'm asking has to do with long term support of rendering projects
- with each new NVIDIA graphics card series NVIDIA introduce a new CUDA version

for example:

Card
GeForce RTX 4090 -----> Compute Capability 8.9
GeForce RTX 3090 -----> Compute Capability 8.6
Geforce RTX 2080 Ti -----> Compute Capability 7.5
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti -----> Compute Capability 6.1
GeForce GTX 980 Ti -----> Compute Capability 5.2

- some Software which used a older CUDA version when released does not run on newer CUDA versions until the software itself has been updated to the latest CUDA version.

My specific questions:
- if I create a rendering project today and I render with a specific FStorm version
can this specific FStorm version run in a couple of years on a newer graphics card (with possibly higher CUDA compute version) ?

Simply said, a FStorm version which had been running with a GTX 1080Ti at time X is also able (same FStorm version) to run on a RTX 4090 ?

Thanks for feedback
Tim

[Karba]

Hi
You can install 7 years old fstrom version and it will work with 4090.