Octane X™ PR 2: Faster! Big Sur: Intel+AMD Polaris Support!

Thu Sep 10, 2020 2:58 pm

AMD Pro 555X on a MacBook Pro 2018 will work? Do I need Big Sur or should work on Catalina?

Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:31 pm

it’s only supported in the closed beta for big sur, but we will drop it on the public forums as soon as possible!

Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:50 pm

Goldorak wrote:it’s only supported in the closed beta for big sur, but we will drop it on the public forums as soon as possible!

Thanks! Waiting exited to try it!!
Amazing work!

Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:17 am

Hi - I have a Mac Mini, with Big Sur beta 8 installed, and Octane Standalone is showing "no render GPU's" and will not start rendering. The Octane Devices tab shows an "intel UHD Graphics 630" card. Is someone able to assist please?

Thanks

Paul

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Mon Sep 28, 2020 7:35 am

Intel Skylake GPUs will be supported in Big Sur, but this PR2 version is for Catalina only.
posting.php?mode=reply&f=33&t=75727#pr389301

ciao Beppe

Mon Sep 28, 2020 11:06 am

bepeg4d wrote:Intel Skylake GPUs will be supported in Big Sur, but this PR2 version is for Catalina only.
posting.php?mode=reply&f=33&t=75727#pr389301

ciao Beppe

Thanks Beppe. But I am a bit confused - the title of this thread is "Big Sur", but this release only runs on Catalina? I could not get Octane Standalone to render in Catalina on the same Mac Mini (thus the reason I tried Big Sur).

Paul

Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:20 pm

Big Sur version with Intel/Polaris support is on the closed beta channel. The links here in the public forum are for the Catalina version.

Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:01 am

Hi

Looks like Dielectric IOR isn't working in the Universal Material with Specular Transmission in Octane X. ORBX Attached.

[edit: sorry about the messy ORBX - direct export from C4D and no clue how to clean it up since I've never used Standalone

- seems to still show the issue though.)
-s

Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:53 pm

speltrong wrote:Hi

Looks like Dielectric IOR isn't working in the Universal Material with Specular Transmission in Octane X. ORBX Attached.

IOR - 1080 ti.png

IOR - Vega 20 PR2.png

[edit: sorry about the messy ORBX - direct export from C4D and no clue how to clean it up since I've never used Standalone - seems to still show the issue though.)
-s

Thank you for your report, a fix will be in place for next revision.

Sun Oct 04, 2020 12:08 am

Can anyone comment on stability? I'm looking at getting a mac workstation after not having one for several years, and I'd love the opportunity to come back but wouldn't if this software runs less stable.