Thank you DrawFun, all is working!

I'm thinking it's the 7zip file it's self. I get this when testing the file in 7zip.

Hi, I've been using this node set up for ever to do over painting and decaling
but since 16.3 and up I'm getting the results shown. Is this still an issue with
the Octane Mix Material node or maybe the Octane Alpha Image node?

That seems to be the issue aufwind, thank you very much for the info!

Hi. I started a new .blend file in 16.2.6 and after modeling a relatively simple mesh
I did some interactive renders and noticed what I thought looked to be high Vram
usage. I saved and opened the same .blend file into 15.3.1 stable and indeed there
was quite a difference in Vram usage, over 1000M ...

Hi, I'm still getting a big difference in Vram usage between 14.0 and 15.1, using the same .blend file.
The file was originally made in 14.0. There are also slight differences in texture counts. Also it seems
that the infinite plane is not working in 15.1.

Hi. When opening a scene that I've been working on in 3.07-14.0 into 3.08-15.0 along with the response curve not loading
there is also a big difference in rendering time and vram usage between the two distributions using the same .blend file.
When using the preview mode with the the Octane imagers ...

Hi azen, it seems that I'm having issues with anti-virus programs as well as aufwind.
When I turn off real time scanning (AVG 17.5.3021) I can then get full downloads of
both Blender Octane 3.06.4 - 12.2 and the server. After installation and upon first start up
of both Blender Octane and the ...

Hi. I'm having issues with downloading the 3.06.4 Server, only partial downloads in both IE and Firefox.
The Blender_Octane seems to download fine.

That seems to be it, I missed that post. Thank you pegot for the informaton!