I have been trying to find away to try to render my animation quickly enough and an acceptable quality. My question is that is there a way for me to know whether Blender is rending using my NVIDIA graphics card? because Blender has been rendering more than 48 hours for a 2-3 seconds animation that doesn't have any movements in the background and the only movement is the characters body moving one way as well as it's hands. It is also only rendering in 100 cycles so I don't think it should take that long. Here's what I've done so far to enable GPU:
I have selected user preferences and clicked on CUDA and the GeForce 610M
I clicked on device and the GPU Computer.