Constant Unpredictable Crashes

Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:47 pm

I've been experiencing frequent crashes lately that's making it hard to make any progress of my project. These crashes are coming from random things like turning on a layer, connecting a node, re-starting a new render, applying a material, etc. I'm on 441.66 Studio driver, but i've also tried rolling back to 431.86, still the same problem. I've had more than 10 crashes in the last hour, so I thought I should come here for some help/insight. I've attached the bug report below.

Octane version: 2019.1.5
C4d Version: R21. 115
GPU: RTX 2080 TI (x3)
64 GB of RAM

Thanks

Seun

Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:12 pm

Can you be on limits of VRAM or RAM or high poly? Or using overclocked GPUs?

Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:10 pm

None of my gpu's are overclocked. In the project, I have about 3.5 GB free VRAM. My RAM seems to be good, didn't look like it was peaking. The is a new problem that just started today. The project and Octane was working fine up until now. I can't seem to figure out what's causing these new crashes. I can't interpret the bug report, but does it give any hints?

Thanks,

Seun

Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:14 pm

Seems like crashing at octane.dll, not directly related with plugin. This kinda problems appeared after latest drivers and latest octane. Not sure why

Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:28 pm

Mmm. Is there anything I can do on my end to not deal with it? Should I use previous version of Octane 2019?

Thanks again for the quick response/assistance.

Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:27 pm

It seems like the crash is scene specific. It's been working fine for the last few months up until yesterday. I tried using the game ready driver, and using the previous 2019 version, but it's still crashing. I've also tried copying the scene to a new project file, but still the same issue. Is there anyway I can send you this scene privately?

Thanks,

Seun

Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:50 pm

Yes pack it, send me a link by pm or send to support email. And write how to reproduce it!

Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:08 pm

I've been investigating the scene all day and the crash seems to be caused by a certain object in a null. When it's in the null and I try to toggle the "visible in render", I get an Octane.dll crash. But when I take it out of the null, everything works fine and I'm able to work. I've reproduced this on my end multiple times so I'm 100% this is somehow the cause. I'll collect the project and detail how to reproduce this!