This is the best news about fixing the freezes! Thanks, I'll go test it.

Is the freeze fixed for 3D Max 25-26?

Who could possibly steal your Octane Render license, and why?
This is probably the most unlikely kind of license theft imaginable.

Agreed! There should be a period of at least a day when the octane renderer considers itself active.

When using Octane Render with shadow catcher and chromatic aberration enabled, a bug occurs!
Tested on Octane Render 2024.1.2 with 3ds Max 2025.

If you plan to release a fix for Octane Render 2024.1.2,
please also add the following options to Open Preferences:

Filter Size

GI Clamp

AI Light and ...

I know that these versions of Octane Render have freezes, but I can’t understand how they manage to stall 3ds Max itself. Even when Octane isn’t selected as the active renderer — V-Ray is set as default — 3ds Max 2025+ still becomes unresponsive at startup.
We are somehow stuck using old versions of ...

I made a simple script that will help you get rid of this problem.

:: A free script to fix the Windows 11 24H2 error,
:: due to which 3ds Max does not see user scripts, macros and plugins.
:: The script removes system/hidden attributes from AppData and Local,
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We need to add support for 3d max 2026, since we can't use the octane 2025-26 integration versions for work. Well, and integrate into octane 2024 the presets that were added in the new versions, I mean those that I asked for earlier and you added them, the default render settings, they are not there ...

Thanks, but judging by this it is not suitable, in your version the thickness of the lines for some reason is not the same, but depends on the shape. It is strange why Octane did not receive a similar material

You need to write to the Nvidia forum, just clarify that the octane render does not work. This is probably the worst generation of video cards in history, half a year has passed, and the drivers are broken and getting worse and worse. 4090 was perfect