I finally spent my over a long time saved money and bought my dream PC with a 5090 to really dive deep into Touchdesigner and unleash it’s full power only to realize that for example the Nvidia background top(haven’t tested the other ones so far) don’t work.
The documentation says it works with 20-40 series cards, guess I should have looked into that beforehand
Will this functionality be added soon or at all or did I miss something in the setup process?
Sorry for the confusion there. Unfortunately the way the Nvidia Maxine library works is that they have specific AI models for each generation of graphics card and the models are not backwards compatible i.e. the 50xx series can’t run the 40xx models. We ran into this same problem when the 40xx series cards were first released as well.
This issue affects the Nvidia Background, Denoise, Upscale, Body Track and Face Track nodes.
We have been talking with Nvidia about an update plan, but haven’t been able to get a firm answer yet. We’re hoping that once their GTC conference is over we might get some more information. But I can say that it almost certainly won’t be an update for our current 2023 official since it would involve updating a number of other systems we use such as CUDA.
So in short, if I correctly understand what your saying, these operators will be able to be used with a 50s card, but it might take a while and you don’t know how long it will take.
That is somewhat promising at least.
Can you give me a ballpark how long it might take?
In any case ,I highly appreciate how well you and all the other pros in this communicate and try to help the community in this forum, thanks a lot an keep it up🔥
I want to be careful not to make any promises here. The main unknown right now is Nvidia and how/when they want to release an updated Maxine SDK for the 50xx series. Once we get some details from them, then we can confirm the licensing and tech issues and make plans for a TouchDesigner update.
Sorry, we’re still waiting for more information on Nvidia for this. Their current webpage implies that Maxine now requires an nvidia enterprise license for end users, but we still don’t have a very clear answer on this affects TouchDesigner
This should be working now in the last couple of 2025 experimental builds that we have posted. Note, you will now need to download the Nvidia AR SDK from Nvidia’s website since we are no longer including the AI models directly with TouchDesigner.
Hello I have a 5070 ti, I have the latest update of the touchy video driver build, I also installed the video effectors sdk version 0.7.6 and still I keep getting the error: NVCV_ERR_MODELDEPENDENCIES. Can you please tell me
Did you make sure to download the RTX 50 series version of the Video Effects SDK? Nvidia has separate downloads depending on what generation of video card you have (20, 30, 40, etc) and that error generally indicates that it can’t find the AI model that matches your hardware config.
And to confirm, which version of TouchDesigner are you using? The 50 series cards are only supported in the 2025 release of TouchDesigner which is still in the experimental stage, not the official 2023 version.
Sorry for any confusion there. We are in the process up updating our documentation for the upcoming official 2025 release which makes it a little unclear what the current requirements/features are.
We would have liked to support the 50 series in the older version of TouchDesigner, but unfortunately there were a lot of dependencies (CUDA, tensor, etc) that made it unfeasible.
