hi all this is a great release and a good job from the team.
but it seems this release is yet to address the multi gpus or am i missing something?

Nice option if you need a card now.

But for the rest of us, wait for Kepler later this year. - Read this:
http://www.vizworld.com/2010/09/thoughts-nvidias-kepler-maxwell-gpus/

nice info but given that kepler is still a new tech, i see another trial and error situation like the gtx 400 to 500 ...

that is true!!!!, it left me stranded yesterday and some days back, this is a totally inefficient and unreliable way of working, and
as a free lancer that cld totally wreck your business, :( i cant even think of octane newer releases as a quick solution when a there is a dead line to meet. so i ...

if only i waited a little longer

well more stuffs to come, i see the qaudro and tesla series loosing more market, in the future, if nvidia dont come up with a jaw dropping solution for those brands

this i really sad, and i hope this would be resolved soon, am reluctant to upgrade :(

We have explained the situation in the release notes, but why are you reluctant to upgrade. Beta 2.42 CUDA 3.0 is not slower than beta 2.3 v5.

Cheers,
Marcus

thanks iv already posted this before seeing the ...

Every program uses the versions which are involved with it.
You can have a DX11 card, but if the game uses DX9, you have DX9.
You want MultiGPU? Then use Octane with cuda3.0...

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Well yes I know I was just perplexed since both Octane with Cuda 3.0 and Cuda 3.2 reports both my 580GTX being ...

bepeg4d wrote:you should stay with 3.0 so you can use both of them and wait for 1.25 for the 20% extra

ciao beppe

this i really sad, and i hope this would be resolved soon, am reluctant to upgrade

Yes, Octane is unbiased rendering engine but when client/director ask for lighter shadows this is where trouble starts. They don't want to know if this is an unbiased result or whatever, they want a lighter shadows...... you can play with gamma and response curves but this is not a solution.

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congrats radiant, i wish i have d money to d a complete upgrade i cld only afford graphic cards for now,
now i wish my grand pa was alive

all d same looking forward to gr8 renders with ur new machine.

enrich doesn't enter our competitions as he is part of our company and he is also managing/judging the competition.
I know that we usually have the few pro-users that consistently are in the winners,
that's why we added more prizes = more winners, to give more people a chance to win.

there's still ...