& how fast is the render when you hook up the other workstation as a render slave ?

....it is sad though, to see this performance hit even when the scene is not doing anything beyond what you could already get from 1.2

yeah, it may be i simply have to give up on these UPS devices. May not be a big problem since my current office space is a lot more reliable with the AC than my previous space. Im still waiting to hear back from Cyberpower. In the old office space it used to be worth the investment just seeing the ...

anyone use a UPS for their workstation ? I never used to have problems but now with multiple graphics cards in my machine i cant see how to do a rendering (just the GPUS's or sometimes all the GPU's + the CPU) and also have the computer plugged into the UPS (cyberpower AVR1500). As soon as the ...

what kind of scene is it ? is it possible there is any corrupt geometry ? tried it with a new scene ?

yes - they are on the slave, which seemed to have all 3 GPU's running at 100% load - and i am not using any of the new features (like displacement etc). Its a simple scene

Thats it - thats really nice ! thanks. So was that my incorrect syntax regarding the GPU count ?
Also, does the new octane measure samp/pix samp/s differently than the previous version ?
I know about the speed slowdown, but am wondering if with the new version its a direct comparison or not ?
For ...

thankyou for your help. I edited the .bat file and i then get a cmd.exe window which says "press any key to continue". then it just goes away and nothing else happens. This is my bat file content

@echo off
start "Octane Slave Daemon" /MIN "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave_daemon ...

unfortunately i have not familiarity with command line prompt. do you mean window "cmd" ? or is it something else ? anyhow, i dont know how to run anything that way. I have run the provided script and i can see that " run_octane_slave_daemon.bat" has been installed in the startup folder - but after ...

I read through the documentation before starting this - and knew immediately this was not going to be straightforward, despite the apparent simplicity of the procedure.
I plan to use octane network distributed rendering with 3dsmax. I have an octane v2 license on both machines. On the slave machine ...

agreed. i avoid mix materials because of this, which is a great shame