A hybrid approach is slower than pure GPU, since the two platforms must communicate = a lot of data copying back and forth from system to GPU. AFAIK, loading data on the GPU for CUDA usage is costly, and it's only worth when you do a lot of calculations on that data. So a hybrid approach is also ...

Hello All,

I was talking to the developers of another render engine at a user group recently, and they mentioned that in the next version they will be adding gpu acceleration. I won't mention which one, as they said it was still a bit hush hush and on checking the website they still haven't ...

Same here.

Like Jaberwocky I can go to 0.001 with no problems, but Octane locks and exits if I go down to 0.00 - OS doesn't lock up for me.

Ubuntu 10.04
cuda driver 3.01
cuda runtime 3.00
nvidia driver 256.53
gtx460

Hi,

just thought I'd point out a little prob in the user manual, page 90 the null emission bit reads:

"Null Emission - This ensures that the"

just in case. sorry if it's already been mentioned

Ahhh.....

awesome thanks for the replies,

just bought Octane....

thanks for reply pixelrush

weirdly you guessed exactly correctly, I've currently got a 512mb 9800GT, and I've just ordered a 2gb gtx460, which will go into my 64bit ubuntu box, with i7 and 6gb Ram, in exactly the config you mentioned :shock: . But the 9800gt has let me play with octane, enough to ...

Hello,

This is my first post here. I couldn't find the answer to my question elsewhere in the forum, so sorry if it's already been covered.

Before I take the plunge and buy octane, I'm a bit confused by the available memory on the video card. I've played with a few scenes and they always seem to ...