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Is there a way to turn on GPU rendering without an installed CUDA driver and without a CUDA enabled graphic card?

I want to send the blend file on my render farm, all the slaves have NVidia CUDA cards, but I don't want to turn on my big computer just to set the blend file to GPU compute and then send it into my farm.

I'm modelling on my Surface Pro 3 [windows 8, i5-processor] on the go [works fine by the way :3], and when I am home I dispatch the jobs to the far, but this way they only work with the GPU when I turn on my greater Computer to change it there.

There doesn't have to be a way, but it would be nice if there were.

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One way you could do it is to run this in a command line (or put it in a batch file). It enables Blender OpenCL test.

set CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST=all
"C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\blender.exe"

Then, in Blender's settings, head over to the "System" tab, and enable OpenCL.

OpenCL in settings

Reference: http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?302079-Blender-Cycles-AMD-Opencl-It-s-possible-working-now

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  • Not sure but i think the experimental feature render option also enables OpenCL GPU rendering. – Bithur Feb 24 '15 at 14:14