Recover 3 | Honeycomb issue with Local Render on foreign computers

Topaz Gigapixel Bugs and Issues
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But Alexandre.topazlabs apparently has a RTX 4500 mobile and that one has tensor cores?

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Yes it has. :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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Oh :eyes: :hushed_face: . Very strange.

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I found something regarding Wonder 2 local with Photo AI.

Could be related to Recovery 3 too.

It could be that it does less matter with GPUs below and with 8 GB, because of the memory system and how the app does work with the models.

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Hmm, is there a way to reduce /block VRAM, e.g. somewhere hidden in NVIDIAs drivers?

That way we could test this on the same system one time with the full 16GB and then with only 8.

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As far as i know there is no switch.

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My tests are with Recover V3 too, and itā€™s great! We can eliminate the model issue here, as many of us donā€™t have those weird results with the same app, and a similar graphics card.

Iā€™m starting to suspect that the drivers for the graphics card are the issue. I am on an older one from December 2025. Can you let me know what drivers you have for your graphics card?

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Many of us have similar setups to the people testing here. I have a computer with a RTX4050 and 6GB VRAM, nothing fancy. I am trying to reproduce but so far itā€™s not successful. See my note about the drivers for RTX graphics card, we might be onto something there.

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Iā€™m using the latest one. The NVIDIA Studio Driver version v591.74 released on January 5, 2026.

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Hmm hmm :thinking: , What if you install the latest version of the Studio driver? Iā€™d like to know if you get the same results as me. If so, then Iā€™ll install the previous version of the driver.

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Please share the original, and I will test. I donā€™t have a fancy computer with a powerful graphics card. We will find the cause of that issue. So far, I just canā€™t replicate. Trust me, itā€™s a lot easier when I can replicate right away. The development team will be on a fix if we need to, as soon as we have the steps to replicate here.

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Fair, I will test that today. I will reply later :slight_smile:
Are you on the Game drivers, or the Studio?

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Now donā€™t tell us youā€™re the only one doing those testsā€¦

There must be someone in Topazā€™ dev team with a more ā€žstandardā€œ (i.e. a mainstream desktop 4060-4090 or 5060-5090) gfx card and also running the latest official NVIDIA drivers and OS.

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Please see below: 1) the original, 2) the result, 3) a printscreen with the parameters and the processing progress. The honeycomb is visible in the result (especially when enlarged). Is that enough? Thanks for your help.

  1. Original:

1-Hoverfly_Original_Crop_IMG_2397
1-Hoverfly_Original_Crop_IMG_23971429Ɨ1279 959 KB

  1. Result:

2-Hoverfly_IMG_2397_crop-gigapixel-recover v3-4x
2-Hoverfly_IMG_2397_crop-gigapixel-recover v3-4x1920Ɨ1718 2.22 MB

  1. Processing parameters:

3-Hoverfly_Clipboard_03-02-2026_01
3-Hoverfly_Clipboard_03-02-2026_011920Ɨ1045 577 KB

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@alexandre.topazlabs

I tried the December 2025 Nvidia Studio drivers (of course, after performing a full uninstall with DDU beforehand) and then also did a complete reinstall of Photo AI. Unfortunately, the issue persists. Because of this, I wouldnā€™t say the problem is driver-related. Both Photo AI and Gigapixel appear to be affected by the same issue.

Iā€™m wondering whether the problem could be caused by CUDA Toolkit, cuDNN, TensorRT, or TensorRT_RTX paths that I also have set in my systemā€™s PATH variables. However, I would assume that Topaz applications pull all the necessary resources from their own directory, since they come bundled with all the required libraries.

What truly puzzles me is that, if I recall correctly, @Fotomaker has it working properly with an RTX 5090, while quite a few of us here are experiencing issues across RTX 3xxx, 4xxx, and 5xxx series GPUs.

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Hi,

I reported working with TP 1.3.1 with my desktop PC NVIDIA 5090 (my 4090 isnā€™t out right now - itā€™s my laptop).

At present I have rel. 1.1.1 of TG installed on my desktop PC (Win 11 Pro). The release notes from Esther for 1.1.2 suggested it was a patch or enhancements for Mac users. Because Iā€™m running Win 11, I did not download or install rel. 1.1.2.

Hope that helps!

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As I showed in the screenshot, I am using the studio driver.

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Itā€™s hard to imagine the testing team wouldnā€™t have PCs with consumer discrete GPUs, be it AMD, Nvidia or Intel Arcā€¦ but if that were the case - who decided on going full ā€œsubscribe only/pro/get out, offline users (for the most part)ā€ while not being even able to fully test the models on consumer hardware?

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Not at all, no one can reproduce this issue for now, and we have a variety of computers with different graphics card

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Iā€™m testing on a RTX4050. I will test different drivers too