Hi all,

We are happy to bring you OctaneRender 2025.2.1. This new version brings a few minor fixes. Thanks again to all those who sent us feedback and continuously help us to improve Octane.

In addition to that we are releasing a new OctaneBench 2025.2.1 with this version, which download links and ...

UON.Visuals wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 6:56 am This version is causing 2 of my render nodes to fail continously, no matter what project I load.

Could you please share more information about your specific setup? HW, drivers, OS version would be helpful. Thank you.

Sorry, the image did not load the first time, now I see what you mean.

This error can throw memory management a bit out of whack and cause errors like the one you see in situations of low memory constraints, which used also to happen in older versions of Octane. I am not sure why this is only ...

Hi,

We have seen this before and are currently working with NVIDIA on a solution since there seems to be an issue with the driver causing this error to be displayed. We are hoping for a driver update to solve this issue.

That being said NVLINK should still be enabled and working despite this error ...

Unfortunately I can't share the scenes we are working on nor can I reproduce it or even pin point to a certain factor. Only variable that changed was octane version.
When we are at it: Is it possible that octane slows down/freezes cinema for up to 50 seconds? I experience it for the first time ...

I really hope we can go back to the stability of the latest 2024 release with 2025. I know it’s a beta but since it’s the only version supporting blackwell we have to use it in production… and it’s a pain in render queue. 2024 just chew through it like a charm… 2025 often crashes when loading ...

I really hope we can go back to the stability of the latest 2024 release with 2025. I know it’s a beta but since it’s the only version supporting blackwell we have to use it in production… and it’s a pain in render queue. 2024 just chew through it like a charm… 2025 often crashes when loading a ...

Hi AI88,

The issue might actually be related to using NVLINK, causing Windows not to report the CUDA devices properly to Octane, we will need to look into this in more detail to give a solution. One way you can possibly get around this issue in the meantime would be reverting to Octane 2023 which ...

Hi dom_otoy,

thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately this issue presist also in Octane Standalone. Please see below:


Hi AI88,

Could you confirm this is also happening to you using some not so recent NVIDIA drivers and share a screenshot of your Octane Standalone device settings window ...

Hi all,

We are happy to bring you the stable release of OctaneRender 2025.1 . Thanks again to all those who sent us feedback and continuously help us improving Octane.

https://render.otoy.com/downloads/6e/c0/c1/37/splash-2025.1.jpg

Important notes :


The minimum NVIDIA driver version ...