2 months later and I still get this issue with the latest builds of octane. Any word on whether this will be fixed? To reiterate I have a 1100w power supply (88% efficiency so it outputs 975w) that I'm only drawing around 700-800 watts from, and octane still crashes my PC every time I enable the ...

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I think resolution is the issue. Didn't seem to have issue running the live viewer window at like 300x300 but at the typical resolution (taking up 1/2 the c4d viewport on a 1080p monitor) is apparently an issue

A few days ago while creating this very simple scene to test the Octane 4 Metallic materials:

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I decided to try out the new AI Denoiser. I was using Cinema 4d R16 and the latest build of c4doctane (not sure at the exact build # but it was a stable build) and then my ...

Man this is an insane deal I wish I had this kind of money

When is the public release of V4 planned to be released? I take it that it depends a lot on the plugin developers to finish their part before that can happen but do you have a date estimate?

I might hold off on buying new GPUs for now because the new out of core feature is coming in octane 4 which might fix the issue, either that or wait for the new gtx 1180 rumored to be coming out within the next few months

updated my signiture with my OS and hardware if that makes a difference

]So whenever I try to do a render in the picture viewer, all I get is a black image, and down below it says "updating.." until about 40 seconds later when it stops.
C4D viewport renders work perfectly fine, and so does the live viewer window. I am only rendering @720p with direct lighting (500 ...