OctaneRender® pre-Beta 2.4 (win x64) [OBSOLETE]

[ROUBAL]

I tried to download GPU-Z,but it downloaded first an installer and proposed a tool bar, tried to open several ports on the machine and I aborted. I don't like this kind of behavior.

I switched back to the previous Cuda 3.01 driver 258.96, and 2.3v5 works fine. Graphic cards have no problem.

I will witch again to the most recent... Still tweaking (I've spent my day on that problem).

Yesterday, I noticed something weird : the current relaease is supposed to not support multi GPU, but EVGA Precision displayed an average activity of 50% on my two GTX 480 while rendering with 2.4 on 260.99...

[abstrax]

1.24 constantly crash! installed new drivers 266.58 (NVIDIA 480 GTX), at the scene seven-million polygons in octane 1.3 GB of video memory

uploaded the scene, only 300 MB of video memory, and 15 light bulbs, starting hang eventually collapse

When does it "constantly crash"? When you use the new driver or also when you use the previous driver 260.99? Do you have the same problem, when you have 266.56 installed and try to use Octane 1.023 v5?

Cheers,
Marcus

[Elvissuperstar007]

1.24 constantly crash! installed new drivers 266.58 (NVIDIA 480 GTX), at the scene seven-million polygons in octane 1.3 GB of video memory

uploaded the scene, only 300 MB of video memory, and 15 light bulbs, starting hang eventually collapse

When does it "constantly crash"? When you use the new driver or also when you use the previous driver 260.99? Do you have the same problem, when you have 266.56 installed and try to use Octane 1.023 v5?

Cheers,
Marcus

I'll check on the 1.023 v5

[Elvissuperstar007]

does not want to move

[enricocerica]

Just made several tests since yesturday and didn't meet any issue with this version except those already reported and confirmed, very stable in my case with my GTX480 and last drivers for XP64.

[abstrax]

does not want to move

Means what? Could you please be a bit more specific, because I can change the reflection value of a specular material via the slider as well as enter another value? Does that happen in a particular scene or always? Does that happen with all specular materials?

Cheers,
Marcus

[Elvissuperstar007]

does not want to move

Means what? Could you please be a bit more specific, because I can change the reflection value of a specular material via the slider as well as enter another value? Does that happen in a particular scene or always? Does that happen with all specular materials?

Cheers,
Marcus

Restarting the scene helped
everything is ok, just 1.24 a strange working on new drivers, very slow, constantly freezes

[abstrax]

does not want to move

Means what? Could you please be a bit more specific, because I can change the reflection value of a specular material via the slider as well as enter another value? Does that happen in a particular scene or always? Does that happen with all specular materials?

Cheers,
Marcus

Restarting the scene helped
everything is ok, just 1.24 a strange working on new drivers, very slow, constantly freezes

Ok, then it's probably better to go back to the old drivers - version 260.99. I haven't tested the new drivers yet, but will have a look later today.

Another thing I sometimes experience quite a bit: OctaneLive can block Octane for up to 30s until it releases it. Please make sure that it's not OctaneLive that accesses Octane, by having a look at the lower right corner of the Octane window: If the symbol right of "act:" is visible and doesn't go away, then that's the reason, why nothing works. We probably can't fix that easily, so we have to live with it for now. Hopefully we can improve that in the future.

Cheers,
Marcus

[ROUBAL]

I tried 266.58, and Windows peripheral manager wasn't able to find one of my two external GTX480. Itried with only one, and Octane 2.4 refused to load ocs and obj,like with 260.99.

I came back to Octane 2.3 and 258.96, the only driver and version that works.

Curiously, yesterday I have been able to use 2.4 with 260.99 during 2 hours...

I have uninstalled all graphic drivers , rebboted in safe mode, applied DriverSweeper to remove all remaining Nvidia things... reinstalled. No more success.

[ROUBAL]

I'm typing on my internet machine,because my workstation is out of order: Black screens. all these drivers trials leaded to something bad...

Edit : I have been able to run the machine again, and fund a weird thing, but it can be a clue :

I uninstalled all drivers, and to avoid problems with possible corrupted files I downloaded again the 260.99 and Octane 2.4. This time, I launched the machine without the Cubix (this means without the two GTX480, keeping only the internal GTX260 used for display : When attempting to install 260.99, I got a message from Nvidia installer : "No compatible hardware found, aborted "

Though, GTX260 is supposed to be supported !