yeah, like I mentioned, I literally formatted my entire computer to start from absolute zero, even installed the installer straight from Maxon's webpage to make sure I didn't have some weird older version.

Did a search of the Files to make sure they didn't make it back somewhere weird, but the ...

is there a better channel to ask this on? I have been trying to fix this for several weeks now with no solution and still am paying for it... ready to jump onto a new render engine at this point :/

I tried because it was there? Probably when I was trying to install it initially a while ago, which likely was what was causing problems earlier.

Well, I started totally fresh, formatted windows, and reinstalled cinema 4d R19 (twice, once even fresh trial straight from maxon installer page and ...

yep everything is updated R19.053, drivers updated, internet connect. should all be good, but attached what I see. The login screen no longer shows up.

(just as an update, I even got the new version of cinema and still no luck)

I have cinema 4d R18 and it was working fine until I tried to upgrade.

the path that the Cinema 4D provides via preferences is: C:\Users\lukasz\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\CINEMA 4D R18_62A5E681

and I have copied: c4dOctane-R18.cdl64, res, Libs300 all into this folder under plugins\c4doctane

also if it ...

one part that confused me was that it wanted me to "Run the installer and select the version of Cinema 4D" this isn't an option as I just get a zip file of the .cdl64 files and sub folders.

lol.... yeah I did that. Followed all the instructions.

actually I found it in C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\CINEMA 4D R18_62A5E681\plugins\c4doctane
and deleted it, then replaced with new files but now it won't open at all. I do see it in the menu for cinema 4d though.

I wouldn't mind just redoing it totally from scratch, but not sure all ...

I booted up my computer for first time in a while and found octane stopped working entirely. I have tried to completely uninstall it and reinstall by deleting the directory Cinema4D\plugins\c4dOctane then reinstalling it in same place and it actually still has an old version number on it? this is ...

I have replaced the file c4dOctane-R18.cdl64 for my version (r18) in the folder ind: Cinema4D\plugins\c4dOctane directory

and it still seems to show 3.05.1

any ideas what is happening? it works but has an old version, very odd?