I have three cards on my system but I fail to see the option to enable SLI in Nvidia's Control Panel,
anyhelp would be appreciated.

When I tried use one GTX 1080 as display card and two RTX 2080 Ti linked together with a NV Link it was not possible to activate SLI in the Nvidia Control panel ...

How do I enable NV Link in Octane Render 2018.1 XB1?

System

Win 10 Pro 64bit
Intel Core i7 5820K
ASUS X99-E WS
64 GB RAM


2x ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti TURBO
Asus NVLink Bridge 4-Slot

Nvidia Driver Version: 417.22

Steps performed:

- installed Asus NVLink Bridge 4-Slot

Asus NV Link Bridge ...

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1) Is access to the OctaneRender Standalone Edition included in the 20$ a month OctaneRender® Studio Subscriptions?


Someone on another forum was confused and thought that it was needed to buy a perpetual license to have access to Octane Standalone.

I noticed that indeed the Standalone ...

Some may have noticed a greenish tint when comparing Images rendered in Octane to Iray versions.

The greenish tint is produced by the custom response curve " Agfacolor HDC 100 plusCD " .

That preset was set as "default" by the original OctaneRender for DAZ Studio plugin developer because it best ...

tldr Version:

- I do not mind leaving my existing perpetual license behind as “sunk cost” and switching to a flexible subscription model that only makes people pay for those features they actually need.

- Users already payed for Tensor Cores and NV Link when they purchased the hardware.
Asking ...

Thank you for putting all this information together in one place.
Must have been a long day / night.

For me this was the information which answered my questions from yesterday:

Full RTX optimizations and NV Link support are experimental today, and planned for Enterprise annual subscriptions ...

Hello

What configuration is faster?
Two RTX 2070 or one RTX 2080 TI ?

Thanks ;)

Two RTX 2070 should be faster than one RTX 2080 Ti based on some benchmarks.

BUT

Keep in mind that NV Link will not be available for RTX 2070 cards.

It is still unclear what benefit the NV Link will bring for two ...

When I did render with the Message Signaled Interrupts Utility on I did not encounter any DPC_Watchdog errors.

At one time possibly a Windows update removed the checkmarks for the GPUs and then I did encounter DPC errors.

-> My subjective impression is that this utility helps a lot ...

As far as I understand it for offline rendering you only need to connect to the internet to authenticate Octane.
As an emergency measure in order not to miss your deadline my suggestion is:

Step 1) Set up a mobile hotspot on your mobile phone.
Step 2) Make a wireless connection between your ...

Nishita Daylight Model

I do not see any effect when adjusting the Sky Turbidity parameter.


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Update / Edit:

Not seeing an effect when adjusting Sky Color and Sunset Color as well in the Nishita Daylight Model.


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Any other parameter that ...