Ray tracing rendering in Windows

Dear support,

I’ve started to experiment with ray tracing in ParaView and so far I have only been able to use OSPRay for CPU based rendering which is quite slow to be honest. I wanted to try the OptiX option for GPU rendering with my NVIDIA card but as soon as I select that option ParaView freezes and stops working. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (gaming GPU) and I am a windows user.

I assume that I might not have the right NVIDIA drivers or installed ParaView in the correct way. Actually I didn’t install it, I’ve just downloaded the .zip installer and executed the binary files because this downloadable version of ParaView has more python modules than the .msi. However I couldn’t find the right answer to my questions on the internet so I am writting this post hoping that I could get a better answer.

Thank you in advance for your time!