Great to hear @abstrax.

Just as an FYI, the test file I sent had samples set to 97 just to make it a very fast test.

The file I was rendering which had the same problem was set to 3500 samples and took around 5 minutes/frame on my 3 GPU setup (1 master, 2 slave) ... you mentioned small maximum ...

to be clear for everyone ... when I was saying "freezes" during rendering, C4D is not crashing, the render more "stalls" at the second frame with output "image 1 doesn't match image 0 for render pass 'Beauty'" in Octane Log ... but I can quit the PV and C4D is fine ... is that similar to what you ...

Sure enough, the plot thickens :)

I loaded the file and hit render ... renders fine
Started LV and loaded it ... freezes
Turned off network render in LV but left on in render ... freezes
Turned off network render in both LV and render to PV ... renders fine!
Turn on network render in LV but off in ...

Yes, I was using network slave for both render to PV and LV ... I can check if I can get it to freeze not running network rendering when current render is done

I'm rendering with any options. LV open/close, sended before/after. Also with other scenes on queue. Still cannot encountered this problem. I'm still on windows. Later i'll run the tests on osx. Do you have many plugins which are installed? Can you try without plugins? Also what's your gpus ...

Downloaded and installed R1.1 version ... tested same file I uploaded and it still freezes on second frame of render once I open LV ... renders fine if I close LV.

I just saw the suggestion to try Render Que and did that .... saw that it was freezing in que as well. Seems to be freezing when I have LV open (more below).

I have included a test file along with the Octane Log output when it freezes.

I am still running Test6, still haven't updated to R1 or the ...

I can definitely send a sample scene ... since I got my current file rendering and I really want to let it finish but will make one once it is done (render is 12 hours).

Since the current file is working it may not be a good test case ... I will check the last versions and find one that hopefully ...

Hi Aoktar,

Thanks for the great updates! I just recently started using 2.24.2-test6 and hoping this might be user error but wanted to see if you were aware of this (I will update to R1 after getting next render done but assume it's very similar to test6).

Here is the issue:

I have been rendering ...

thank you ... great that you figured this out so quickly