octane doesn´t accept geforce gtx 1060

[stiwi]

Hi,
I had to replace my old graphics card by a zotac geforce gtx 1060. from all I know it should be able to work with octane. but when I start octane it won´t work and a message in red tells me there was "no CUDA GPU"s.
When I go to "Preferences" I find my Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB (compute model 6.1) on the list (as the only available device). CUDA Driver Version is 8.00. I have the latest update from NVIDIA, so what´s wrong? Any idea?
Thanks in advance
stiwi

[bepeg4d]

Hi stiwi,
which version of OctaneRender are you using?
You need at least 2.26 or 3.03.2 to work with Pascal GPUs.
ciao beppe

[stiwi]

ciao beppe,
thx for your reply. I´m stuck with version 1.20. Looks like I´m in trouble then?
So many details to be aware of.
Looks like I need to buy an upgrade then.
Kind regards
stiwi

[JasmineJasmine]

Not sure where your post is on Octane forums, so i took the liberty to post the last pic of yours over there in one of the GTX1080 topics in General Discussion over there. I hope you dont mind, i credited you ofc as the author of the screenshot / performer of the bench.

[JasmineJasmine]

It's also possible for an application writer to explicitly check an installed GPU against a "whitelist", and only turn on the GPU acceleration path if the detected GPU belongs to the "whitelist". This might be what is happening in some of these cases where CUDA is installed correctly but the app does not recognize the GPU. In such a situation, there is really nothing that can be done from the NVIDIA/CUDA side to affect the application behavior, and presumably, the app writers want it to be that way.