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Hey all,

This is a new one for me, so I figured I'd post it before trying to submit a ticket.
I'm on the current stable release of the version 4 plugin (4.01.1.43) and the standalone version correlating, and am on driver version 417.35 (CUDA driver version 10.00).
I recently reinstalled Windows due to some issues with system stability, and all of the odd errors I was experiencing are gone, thankfully, but a new one has cropped up only in the plugin.
I have 4x 980 Tis.
Windows sees all 4 of them, and the standalone also sees all 4 of them.
The plugin only reads the first/primary GPU (It is the only entry in the device list when I Open Device Settings).
I have tried reinstalling the plugin, no luck. I also can't seem to find anything else that specifically relates to what the plugin has access to.
I am at a loss as to how to go about getting the plugin to read the other 3 GPUs at this point, but I would like to fix the issue instead of resorting to exporting to the standalone if possible.

Hi. I will ask an Octane dev to respond to this issue.

Paul

Can you please post the Octane Log windows from both the DAZStudio plugin (on bottom of the System tab) and Octane Standalone?

Thanks

Paul

Another suggestion is that perhaps you have some GPUs disabled specifically for the DAZStudio application in NVidia control panel.

Paul

I'm sorry it took so long to reply, apparently I'm not getting updates on posts :/

Screencap of the logs (Standalone is the top one). They don't show anything other than that they started (I verified the device settings in both remain unchanged from before immediately prior to the screenshot), but here you go.



Edit as writing: Thank you so much! It was an nVidia setting. No idea how or why it changed that, of all things, on a reinstall. I do now have a reoccurrence of one of the issues I reinstalled Windows for though, namely that the 4th card now runs constantly, and if I try to use it to render, my computer will crash with a DPC_Watchdog violation.



Basically (since I can't get an output due to a guaranteed, hard system crash when the issue occurs), if I open Daz Studio, and open the viewport, at some point, the system will crash. It can vary wildly (it has rendered up to 2000 s/px once), but will occur at some point, and usually instantly, even with an empty scene (only rendering the environment, for example). The only way to render within Daz Studio at all with all 4 cards "active/visible" is to soft disable cards 1 and 4 in the Device Settings. Prior to the windows reinstall (and I presume now likely to occur again since the symptoms are identical), this crash occurred in both the standalone and Daz Studio, whereas with the cards (for whatever reason) hard disabled for Daz Studio, I can render just fine with all four in the standalone. I will test this more thoroughly now that I know what setting got changed, but my best guess is somehow Daz Studio (ie. the plugin) is somehow confusing something, because it is the only program being open that forces this behavior.

Thanks again for at least getting me to open the thing I should have checked first!

Edit again, after a bit more fiddling:
Nevermind the second issue. Cycling Daz Studio twice, and doing a couple renders, the card is now behaving normally, and everything is stable. Would love to know what went wrong in the first place, but everything appears to be in working order now. Back to rendering normally (finally, almost a month later), I go!

Thanks again for the suggestions!