The GPU conundrum
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:13 pm
Dear Otoy
So Ive been using Octane since before V1.0, I've bought every update until subscription became mandatory to get new features. I remember the days where I bought a X99 system so I can have 4x GTX 780TI cards running at once. It was a good time in Octane. Sad thing nowadays is that If I don't spend the equivalent of a new GPU in value a year I cant even use more than one GPU at a time. Now I understand that people at Otoy need to make a living, and that things change when you expand your business into more branches and that creates more opportunities and the need for more resources. The Only Logic I cannot understand, I have two RTX 2080 TI cards atm... these was not cheap at all, now I will be forced to buy a RTX 3090 to benefit from faster renders, either that or I buy a subscription. The time has come where I actually get faster renders with Iray due to the fact that it will utilize as many GPU's as I can throw at it. I am so comfortable with Octane, but I cant help but feel some greed in limiting the users from using the hard earned hardware. why not rather make it so feature rich that I want to support Octanerender, rather than try and force me to subscribe by disabling me from using my hardware to their full extend. I feel dismayed that I am worse off now than I did when I first started, At least make the last paid version of Octanerender have the same support for hardware it had when it first came out.
Yours faithfully,
Disappointed
So Ive been using Octane since before V1.0, I've bought every update until subscription became mandatory to get new features. I remember the days where I bought a X99 system so I can have 4x GTX 780TI cards running at once. It was a good time in Octane. Sad thing nowadays is that If I don't spend the equivalent of a new GPU in value a year I cant even use more than one GPU at a time. Now I understand that people at Otoy need to make a living, and that things change when you expand your business into more branches and that creates more opportunities and the need for more resources. The Only Logic I cannot understand, I have two RTX 2080 TI cards atm... these was not cheap at all, now I will be forced to buy a RTX 3090 to benefit from faster renders, either that or I buy a subscription. The time has come where I actually get faster renders with Iray due to the fact that it will utilize as many GPU's as I can throw at it. I am so comfortable with Octane, but I cant help but feel some greed in limiting the users from using the hard earned hardware. why not rather make it so feature rich that I want to support Octanerender, rather than try and force me to subscribe by disabling me from using my hardware to their full extend. I feel dismayed that I am worse off now than I did when I first started, At least make the last paid version of Octanerender have the same support for hardware it had when it first came out.
Yours faithfully,
Disappointed