A wonderful display of such a wide variety of materials... This scene must have really put your available render memory to good use.

Heh, that cardboard on the material ball does give the impression of a carved pumpkin.

.. well with a few quick adjustments to any material macro and it becomes a good starting point for many others.

I have performance issues in 3dsmax with my latest nvidia drivers (win64) but need the CUDA 4.0 for rendering with Octane on the same way.
I would like to downgrade grahpic drivers but install CUDA 4.0.

Is it possible? And what do I need? The SDK?

Although the latest driver is always ...

There are devices known as KVM extenders, typically used in server environments to bring the console elsewhere, outside of the server room by using a single Cat5 or Fibre network cable.

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Now, $300 is a bit much for such a device for ...

Yes, I simply un-select any active pick tool to regain free movement

This Tutorial from Blendercookie.com for Blender -> Luxrender should have some good pointers, Much of it applies with Octane as well.

http://www.blendercookie.com/2011/05/03 ... luxrender/

Are you refering to the background seen in the material ball preview?

Typically I simply create my own textures and apply them as needed to a simple curved surface below and behind the models. it is really one of the most simple things to do.

There shouldn't be problems with this, as long as the card is stable. Though it can cause calculation errors that may not be corrected without the ECC found on the Quadro and Tesla cards. Typically its these errors that trigger a lockup or freeze type crash.

A CUDA Release Candidate 4.0 is available now.
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_4_0_RC_downloads.html

Looks like its got plenty of low level changes. I would think that it's going to be a bit of a wait before a future release of Octane can be fully migrated. That last Cuda version 3.2 seemed ...

Heh, I checked back on that site less than an hour later, Looks like their viral test is working. That bar has already moved at least 10% .. at that rate that offer will be done before the end of today.