hi,

8600GT is old and quite slow, it won't make for a smooth editing experience...
If you like using octane i'd consider investing in a new GTX400 series card, it makes octane completely different, it's much faster.

Radiance

we managed to get octane working on a windows 7 32-bit platform ...

Hello and thanks again

The system we're using to test is using a 8600GT, Q6600 Quad Core 2.40ghz, 4GB DDR2 RAM running on Windows XP. We've updated the CUDA drivers to the latest available as well as the video card drivers. It's good to know that the emitter materials will be included; that was our ...

Ah thanks for that.

We've used Sketch-Up version 7 and 3DS Max to export but the demo version of Octane is still crashing. The faces have not been reversed from Sketch-Up or 3DS Max but the same thing happens every time... On top of that the demo scene files also fail to be imported as obj. so it ...

Thanks for the replies.

Apparently the .obj file was a simple cube drawn in Sketch-up when the program crashed...

My colleague also has 2 additional questions.

5. Would improving the RAM or CPU of a system have much influence on the performance of the program? We are using Quad Core Q6600 2.40ghz ...

Hello,

I'm an employee working in a small architecture firm which is considering using this software as its primary rendering software.
I've been given a couple of questions to ask before purchasing the Beta version of this software, which are as follows:

1. When an .obj file is imported as a mesh ...