The new build did the trick, I feel silly for asking

The arch & design conversion is great too! and the focus picker! should have updated a long time ago, thanks for the quick help!

I have a Quadro 4000 and a Tesla C2075, but the tesla was the only card I was using for octane when it crashed.

I am using the 2.58b, I'll try installing the newest version and see if that helps

I've had this problem several times before when trying to render buildings, but now it's happening with vehicles.

the viewport initially stays all black and runs up to a few hundred passes and then freezes. if you close the viewport, it then defaults to this 0/0 samples and grey screen when you ...

Thanks for the ideas mbetke, definitely agree with the dynamics, it needs some motion! and the background was just a jpeg set to emittexture, I think a true HDRI would make it pop alot more

it's one of my favorite cars after all these years too, truly a stunning vehicle in real life!

Hey guys, this my first try at a vehicle render, it's not my model but It was a lot of fun to texture and light. Would love some C&C, especially on the materials as that's my primary responsibility at work I know I have lots of improving to do :)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8154/7216671642 ...

^Also I don't know if this would affect it, but I am not currently connected to the internet, though the Liscense has been activated on my machine

This has been happening to me frequently, but without the Standalone version ever being opened.

I try to open the viewport within 3ds and I get the same gray screen with 0/0 samples in the bottom. The only soloution I have found is to restart the entire computer which is a huge inconvenienve. Is ...

Also very interested in getting the Live DB into the plug-in, or a built-in convertor for mental-ray's library