n1k this is looking really great.

Oh and Roving Mars is my favourite documentary on the subject.

This problem doesn't just affect Windows…

Nvidia wrote:We believe recent NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers are affected by a recently reported fan speed issue in 195.36.08 and 195.36.03.
Until the problem is resolved, we recommend that UNIX users revert to the 190.53 web release, or the 195.30 public beta.

I'm one of the judges and have just finished going through all the entries, it was much harder to narrow them down than I had expected.

I'd like to congratulate everyone on making so many great renders (despite the limits of the first beta versions).

There's a couple of videos made by users available on youtube: a house and one of a car.

i want to ask if it is allowed to buy and share licence ? i mean that i would like to put some money together with my friend and buy one licence of octane and then share it
You'll need to get one licence per machine. If your working on the same machine then sharing will of course be fine.

is ...

James wrote:Is freenode not a mroe suitable IRC Server?

Nope…

freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related communities and organizations.

Shame,
this doesn't seem to apply anymore in Windows 7 (64bit).
Only vista and XP seem to feature the reg-settings.
I just got around to testing the registry settings and they worked just fine on Win7. I've attached the setting I ended up using, which was a increase of TdrDelay & TdrDdiDelay to 6 ...

Edwin.k. wrote:Slow fps (max 3) should not happen with 128 cuda cores per card right?

I've got 240 cores and have had this problem when testing high resolution renders with a lot of bounces. I've not had time to test with the registry setting (also testing under win7 x64), I'll give it a try later.

enricocerica wrote:I'll try, where can I get that scene ? Have you a direct link ?

You can get it from the http://www.3drender.com/challenges/ (direct link).

sam75 wrote:When i change the resolution the render view goes off screen, is there a way to center it back ?

You can use CTRL + left click to pan the render (see the post that followed the released for more info).