Out-of-core is great!

[hdace]

Hey Juanjo,

I've now been using ooc for several days and it makes it possible to render scenes that couldn't be rendered before owing to high memory demands. I'm very pleased with all the ongoing improvements with Octane, but this one is particularly helpful. Keep up the great work!

Hal

[3dworks]

can't agree more! ...and the speed hit doesn't seem even big when using this feature!

cheers

markus

[BorisGoreta]

I never exceeded the 6GB limit even with the most complex scenes I worked on and next gen GPUs will have 12GB but it's alright.

[hdace]

Yeah our scenes often exceed 6GBs. We used to work quite hard to keep them under, but now we don't have to worry so much. And we've not noticed much of any speed hit at all, although I understand there should be a slow-down.

[3dworks]

it's not only about scene complexity. if you are going to use passes and high resolution it's easy to hit the RAM ceiling because each buffer layer needs to be kept in octane when saving as layered EXR, for example. i agree that for video or small print resolutions, octane is doing a great job keeping memory needs very low.

markus

[rogeraususa]

My 3x GTX590's are loving this feature implementation. I get all the CUDA performance without the memory ceiling - thanks a million!