That worked! thank you so much!

What's the reasoning that the env works better with this syntax?

Yeah here's my .env file, Houdini 17.0.506, and no error on a blank load, the errors start when I try to do anything octane related

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#
# Houdini Environment Settings
#
# The contents of this file are read into the environment
# at startup. They will override any existing entries ...

I'm running 419.67 so I don't think its a driver issue. Houdini doesn't appear to be finding the new octane install, or able to reference any of the nodes or commands relating to Octane. Very confusing...

actually, the mis-spelling is correct I'm a bit of an idiot and my programs folder on my second hard drive is progams

Hi All I'm having an Issue where Houdini doesn't load the new version of octane Capture.PNG even though I've modified the .env file to read

# OCTANE SETUP
PATH = "D:\Progams\Octane_4.04.0.2_Houdini_Win64\Octane_4.04.0.2_Houdini_17.0.506_Win64\bin;$PATH"

It works with version 4.01.1.1 with the ...