you know what you 2 can come on discord and talk to the dev him self instead of being here and be angry over the livedb that no one uses anymore. Maybe he can help you

Close down daz go into C:/users/*username*/OctaneRender/Data/ and delete OctaneRender_livedb2.oczdb go back into daz and in octane window press update under live db and turn off auto update.
And try and see if its updates and download the db again

Thank you - I did that before.
The LiveDB was ...

Close down daz go into C:/users/*username*/OctaneRender/Data/ and delete OctaneRender_livedb2.oczdb go back into daz and in octane window press update under live db and turn off auto update.
And try and see if its updates and download the db again

Thank you - I did that before.
The LiveDB was ...

Close down daz go into C:/users/*username*/OctaneRender/Data/ and delete OctaneRender_livedb2.oczdb go back into daz and in octane window press update under live db and turn off auto update.
And try and see if its updates and download the db again

I've posted some quesions about the plugin 2023.1.1.306 in DAZ Studio 4.22.0.1.

1. It's not possible to download any materials from the Live DB in DAZ studio. The texture-slot is empty and the material is rendered in black.

2. I can't acess my materials-preset anymore. There not a single material ...

Most of this forum is user driven also there is a bug with the live database but the database is useless all shaders are outdated you get better results making your own

Not much to go off with why your db is not working. My live db works but the shaders in there are useless they are old and outdated better to make your own and save put in My presets in the octane plugin.

delguy wrote:Octane is now on 2024-studio. But this plugin is still on 2022. What is plan to further upgrade as I have not seen any effort since June.

I talked to BK on Discord they say its on its way no clue how long the new dev needs to learn the daz octane plugin.
I got told soon.

yea seems to have been broken at some point i have used them before

you need to download latest plugin here viewtopic.php?f=44&t=81750 the old version of octrane does not support the new cuda version of the 4000 series
Also just 3 post under this one is the solution to your problem.