Hi,
please consider that the AMD support in Mac Os has been released thanks to the great work made by Apple with their Metal driver.
It would be very welcome if AMD would like to do the same for Windows and Linux, but it does not depend from Otoy effort, unfortunately :(

ciao Beppe

Hm, what's ...

I'm a bit confused with all the versions and development going on, so I just ask: With an Octane MacOS version around, supporting AMD cards, is Octane (liek the 2020 version I have a license for) on PC also being developed to support modern AMDs .. like the new RDNA2 cards, that were just released ...

Does the 3090s NVLink mean, Octane can pool VRAM across several cards? I'm confused there. So two 3090s would have 48 GB of scene memory, while two 3080s only have the old, non shared 10 GB?

Hm, with the new gaming cards announced today, only the expensive 3090 has NVLink. If I want Octane to make use of two GPUS, can you buy two 3080's? I assume it then can use the compute power of these two cards, but not concatenate the VRAM into one large pool, while the 3090 with NVLink can both ...

That fixed it, thanks I have no idea, what it means .. will have to google tomorrow, too tired now, but it now renders as expected, thanks.

I installed the test 2020 version of 0.82a. I created a fluid animation, which shows fine inside blender, I can play the animation of the mesh etc, it has a material, I can advance the framemarker to any frame and have a nice fluid animated still image I can render etc ... all fine. But when I hit ...

Hm .. so if I get this right, the hobbyist without enterprise level money now buy the offline dongle, but loses more than 2 GPU support and Live DB compared to Octane 4. Or now has to bite the apple and buy one of the expensive Enterprise 12 month things? I'm not sure where you can upgrade v4 ...

Too many trees. I'm confused.

Is octane in the future no longer available as a one time pay thing with normal upgrading? Is there only going to be the subscription? As a hobbyist, I'd have to look for something else then, as I have to avoid any monthly pile up of costs ;(

Why do you want older version of Octane which has less features?

Are the new ones not subscription only? I'm just a hobbyist, having occasional fun and I need standalone things in my life, that do not pile up monthly expense and that have doable upgrade prices for hobbyists (aka noncomemrcial use ...

Hm .. an I just wanted to ask this :/ Blender 2.8 is such a big important step, that it would be decent to have Octane 4 Standalone integrated into it...