Hello there!
I'm brand new to Octane, having just signed up to OctaneVR for C4D over the weekend after playing with the demo for a bit. I'm really excited about the potential, but unfortunately I'm finding it really unstable for me.
Examples of what seems like quirky behaviour:
- Adjusting various settings would sometimes cause everything to hang (nothing is clickable in C4D, causing me to kill the task after waiting for about 10 mins - GPU maintains a lowish level of fan noise, and the render % stops updating along with any further activity on Live viewer)
- Octane Textures sometimes stop being displayed in the C4D viewport. Initially showed the c4doctane noise texture when created/applied, but later appeared as just flat white, even though it displays properly in Octane's live viewer)
- Motion blur randomly deactivating despite all the settings being correct. (The correctness of settings was validated by saving my file, restarting my PC, and le voila, it all reappeared again). Resetting render data and restarting sometimes fixes this, but it feels like I'm needing to click this a lot...
- Motion blur is visible in the live viewer, but does not appear when rendered in Picture Viewer. (C4D render settings were set to Octane, and the octane info bar appears at the bottom of pictureviewer window, so it seems to be using the right renderer)
Since there are general no posts in the forums complaining about these fairly basic issues (which would essentially render the product unusable for any serious work), I am assuming there's something going on with my setup. First of all, it's worth mentioning that C4D (R18.048) NEVER crashed on my PC prior to installing and using Octane. The main variable to me is probably the more extensive use of my GPU, which I know is less than ideal (GTX 680 with 2GB RAM). However I have set up Out of Core to use 16GB from my 32GB of system RAM, and I have also tried to go back to basics by just playing with one plane + one cube, and the quirky behaviour is still occurring (not so much the crashing, but the other strange behaviours still remain).
I'm ready to fork out for a more modern GPU, but before I do that and discover it doesn't fix anything, I was wondering whether any of this sounds like there's something else that might be going on, including obvious user error
Other details off the top of my head:
Running Windows 10, 64-bit
i7-4790 @ 3.60Ghz
32GB RAM
Any hints or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!