I’m really not liking the Blender foundation’s new webpage design as it appears designed more for show than for usefull information and I’m having trouble finding the link to what bug fixes and or new regressions there may be on Blender 2.79a. I’m having to reduce the Zoom to 75% to view the webpage and IE11 has never been that great once the page scaling is set at any setting other than 100%. As always, it’s free.īlender 2.79a sounds like more bug fixes and the Blender Foundation’s webpage is not rendering properly in the Browser on 1366 x 768 laptop displays(Windows 7/IE11 Browser). If you’re interested, be sure to check out the latest release.

If you were having issues with the Titan V, then you should try 2.79a. While I haven’t heard any complaints from Titan V owners, the lack of CUDA 8 SDK was a big problem for early owners of GeForce GTX 10X0 cards, so Volta users might have been suffering in silence until now.

Glancing through the release notes, one noteworthy edition is that Blender 2.79a now includes the CUDA 9 SDK in its build process, and it includes work-arounds for “performance loss” with those devices. I haven’t had a chance to use 2.79a yet, but the release notes are mostly bug fixes and performance improvements. It seemed likely that it would happen at some point, because it looks like they are aiming for 2.80 to be the next full release, and that will take some time.

Normally the “a” patch of Blender arrives much closer to the number release – about a month or so.įive months after 2.79, however, the Blender Foundation has released 2.79a.

Blender 2.79 free download