OctaneRender™ Standalone 2.11.1

[grimm]

Ok, I got the 980 working, I had to pull the card from the computer, setup the driver with just the 460, then put the 980 back in the computer. Now the driver sees both cards and Octane does too. I'm getting the same results as other people have, the 980 is about 5 or 6 times faster than the 460 and the PMC kernel fails. I'm getting about 4 ms/sec on the benchmark scene.

Edited to add the PMC error:

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PMC kernel: Unsupported compute model (52)
device 0: PMC failed

[zivko]

I've upgraded to octane 2.x today and i'm very happy with new features so lemme thank to octane devs for doing an amazing job first

I recently bought gtx970 and have gtx460 from before so ran benchmark on 1.55 and after upgrading i ran the test on 2.11.1 too. 460gtx tests showed octane 2.x renders faster then 1.5x on 460 in direct lightning and path tracing mode (alpha shadows off, coherent on). Results i get are ~20% faster in path tracing. I expected PMC rendering speed to remain at least the same as in 1.55 based on DL and PT results, but i was surprised when i noticed 1.55 rendering benchmark scene a lot faster in PMC then 2.11.1 does. I've installed octane 2.06 and run the test again.
My gtx 460 renders 1.4 Ms/sec in PMC on octane 1.55 and octane 2.06, but it renders only 0.5 Ms/sec in octane 2.11.1. I can't try PMC on 2.x cause i get same 'failed' error as grimm did.

Has anyone else noticed slower PMC rendering speed in 2.11.1?

Also, since i was running test today, i noticed gtx970 renders fine in PMC in octane 1.55, but it fails to render in PMC in 2.x octane. Since people running 9xx cards already reported PMC issue with 9xx cards, i'd like to point out to octane team that cards render fine in 1.55 hoping that info speeds up finding the solution.

[kavorka]

I've upgraded to octane 2.x today and i'm very happy with new features so lemme thank to octane devs for doing an amazing job first

I recently bought gtx970 and have gtx460 from before so ran benchmark on 1.55 and after upgrading i ran the test on 2.11.1 too. 460gtx tests showed octane 2.x renders faster then 1.5x on 460 in direct lightning and path tracing mode (alpha shadows off, coherent on). Results i get are ~20% faster in path tracing. I expected PMC rendering speed to remain at least the same as in 1.55 based on DL and PT results, but i was surprised when i noticed 1.55 rendering benchmark scene a lot faster in PMC then 2.11.1 does. I've installed octane 2.06 and run the test again.
My gtx 460 renders 1.4 Ms/sec in PMC on octane 1.55 and octane 2.06, but it renders only 0.5 Ms/sec in octane 2.11.1. I can't try PMC on 2.x cause i get same 'failed' error as grimm did.

Has anyone else noticed slower PMC rendering speed in 2.11.1?

Also, since i was running test today, i noticed gtx970 renders fine in PMC in octane 1.55, but it fails to render in PMC in 2.x octane. Since people running 9xx cards already reported PMC issue with 9xx cards, i'd like to point out to octane team that cards render fine in 1.55 hoping that info speeds up finding the solution.

I see slower speeds in PMC, but its hard to tell because Ms/s isnt everything. It might actually clean up faster now even with a slower speed.

[jan kudelasek]

Hi,
I have problem with netrendering. I have same Error log like coilbook with every scene. Same with coherent disabled. No displacement.

slave .... (5) lost 1.0 samples
slave .... (5) lost 2.0 samples
slave ..... (3) lost 2.0 samples
slave ..... (5) lost 1.0 samples

Animation:
Frame freezes at the end after several frames.

Yesterday I left cooking animation over night, no total crash, but I probably lost some gpu, because one frame lasted about ten minutes longer in the morning.

Octane render Viewport:
Same problem. I lost some slaves. It´s look like 1GPU slave is more stable then multiGPU slave.
It is very unstable at the scene update, or changes in the scene. .

Samples/s fluctuate very. for example, at the beginning of rendering speed I 6samples / s (what is correct) Several minutes after only 2.8 samples / s. Every slave machine goes well alone.

As I said, these problems I have with every scene from version 2.10.I use to 3ds max but probably this is Standalone problem.

Could you please try to reproduce this issue?

Thank you

Jan

[abstrax]

Hi,
I have problem with netrendering. I have same Error log like coilbook with every scene. Same with coherent disabled. No displacement.

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Could you please try to reproduce this issue?

Thank you

Jan

We tried to reproduce the issue, but couldn't. So can you please send us a scene that causes these issues? Then we can investigate it further.

Thanks,
Marcus

[jan kudelasek]

ok thank you, I will send you scene tommorrow.

[jan kudelasek]

This weekend I had the time to devote to the problem. I tried 2.06 and I had the same problem. I discovered that the problem was in lan jack . This caused that the connection was not stable. So sorry for the panic.

Jan

[coilbook]

please make static noise 100% static if possible like CPU rendered Very needed for CG cartoons Thanks

[coilbook]

This weekend I had the time to devote to the problem. I tried 2.06 and I had the same problem. I discovered that the problem was in lan jack . This caused that the connection was not stable. So sorry for the panic.

Jan

Hi Jan
You said you lost samples because you had bad lan connection like a cat wire or actual network adapter jack? Does it mean i need a new adapter

Thank you

[jan kudelasek]

This weekend I had the time to devote to the problem. I tried 2.06 and I had the same problem. I discovered that the problem was in lan jack . This caused that the connection was not stable. So sorry for the panic.

Jan

Hi Jan
You said you lost samples because you had bad lan connection like a cat wire or actual network adapter jack? Does it mean i need a new adapter

Thank you

Hi Coilbook,

no It solve my problem with animation only (freezes at the end). Now I'm working on another scene today, happened to me once. Same error log. Lost samples ...