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bepeg4d
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Hi,

If you are talking about old Macs with AMD/Intel GPUs, they are no more supported from a long time.

OctaneX only works with Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3/M4, and now M5 GPUs.

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tsykhra
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Hello, no Tahoe support yet? Blender 4.5.2 (30.7) - Waiting for image...

M3Max, Tahoe 26.1
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Hi,

You need Octane for Blender 2025.4-30.10 version to have Tahoe support, and you can find it here:
viewtopic.php?t=85269

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Madeira3d
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Hi everyone,

I searched the forum and seems last year octane was available in Nvidia Omniverse, is that still available?

Does Omniverse also run on the render network? I don't think so right? Will that happen?

Paul
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martinzip
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Hi everyone, I want to set up a linux render server on my old mac 5,1. Anyone has experience with this set-up? Otoy seems not to develop render nodes for mac...so I give linux a try. Beppe do you have any advices or driver tipps what ever I have to take care when setting up? Thanks for your help in advance.

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Hi Martin,

Sincerely, I have done that some time ago and my memory is getting old :D

I remember to have tried some distro, and at the end, the more easy to install and maintain was Ubuntu, but I have screwed up my installation and I'm too lazy to reinstall it.

You need to prepare an USB stick via terminal, if I remember well, and the major issue was to keep the Nvidia driver up to date.

I have also read that old mac pro are no more supported by recent Linux distro, so I have abandoned my old Mac Pro 5.1 in the dust of the office :(

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Tanchoys
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Hi, I've macOS 15.7.3 and M4 chip, version of Cinema 4D - 2024.2.0. I don't understand which version of Octane I need. Tried v1.5.1 and v1.7.2 and it's not working for me.
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Tanchoys wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 5:40 pm Hi, I've macOS 15.7.3 and M4 chip, version of Cinema 4D - 2024.2.0. I don't understand which version of Octane I need. Tried v1.5.1 and v1.7.2 and it's not working for me.
I have v1.7.2 working
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Tanchoys wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 5:40 pm Hi, I've macOS 15.7.3 and M4 chip, version of Cinema 4D - 2024.2.0. I don't understand which version of Octane I need. Tried v1.5.1 and v1.7.2 and it's not working for me.
The issue is in C4D build, 2024.2.0 is too old.
Maxon has introduced new particles system in C4D 2024.4 build, so you need to upgrade your copy of C4D to 2024.4 or greater to be able to load the plugin.

The minimum supported C4D versions are:
R25.117,
R26.107,
2023.2,
2024.4,
2025.0.1,
2026.0.0

If you install the plugin in a lower build number, the plugin cannot be loaded.

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