OctaneRender® pre-Beta 2.42 (win/mac) [OBSOLETE]

Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:54 pm

kubo wrote:justix that's what it should show. I'm not sure if either is the actual nvidia internal number for 3.2 or it's a number buggy of octane but it's been explain in this or in 2.41 thread, check it out.

I see..well I will have a good look at the threads already opened, sorry for this but as there 2 Octane pre-beta 2.42 one for 3.0 and 3.2 I though to mention...

kubo · Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:22 pm

I didn't mean to say you were doing anything wrong by reporting, quite the opposite, I meant that I wasn't sure about the actual explanation out of those two and that if you wanted to verify it it was somewhere written.
Cheers

Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:23 pm

justix wrote:Hi guys, I'm just back to Octane after a long while and realised that I missed some pre-beta releases now I did download the pre-Beta 2.42 Cuda 3.2 version as suggested for the 4XX series (470) and update the card drivers to 266.58 which shows me that I have a cuda 3.2.1 driver component BUT if I check the Octane cuda device in my preferences it shows only cuda 3.02 ?? any advice?

thanks

It´s only an number bug in Octane...

face

Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:30 pm

kubo wrote:I didn't mean to say you were doing anything wrong by reporting, quite the opposite, I meant that I wasn't sure about the actual explanation out of those two and that if you wanted to verify it it was somewhere written.
Cheers

no offence taken

...thanks to both of you for answering me, now I know it is a bug ; )

Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:29 am

Fix live account for the last time it is unusable. Try to leave an animation overnight! That's not a way to treat your customers.
Yes, problem is always on your server side!

Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:30 am

Can anyone of the team give an indication as to when the Linux version of 2.4 will come out? Is it something that will happen in the next few days - weeks - months? I'm only nagging because they has barely been a word about it, and the New Year's competition is almost over. Yes, I have submitted an entry, but want to submit another one which represents too much work to fiddle with in my spare time (open, fiddle, save, close, open some time later - blast! everything is mixed up and some nodes won't connect, fiddle again, repeat, lather, rinse). Now you know why I'm bald.

Cheers.

Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:45 am

face wrote:
justix wrote:Hi guys, I'm just back to Octane after a long while and realised that I missed some pre-beta releases now I did download the pre-Beta 2.42 Cuda 3.2 version as suggested for the 4XX series (470) and update the card drivers to 266.58 which shows me that I have a cuda 3.2.1 driver component BUT if I check the Octane cuda device in my preferences it shows only cuda 3.02 ?? any advice?

thanks
It´s only an number bug in Octane...

face

That's correct. The next version (pre-beta 2.43) will have it fixed. The problem was the weird way how NVIDIA reports CUDA versions. The number is 3020 and we thought it's meant to be something like

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printf("%.2f", version / 1000.f);

According to the CUDA toolkit, the version is instead:

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printf("%d.%d", version / 1000, version % 100);

Everyone who programs sees our mistake

That's just for the interested reader...

For everyone else who doesn't program: Octane reports versions 3.00 and 3.02. 3.00 means CUDA 3.0 and 3.02 means CUDA 3.2.

And as I said before, it will be fixed with beta 2.43.

Cheers,
Marcus

Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:53 am

iljubicic wrote:Fix live account for the last time it is unusable. Try to leave an animation overnight! That's not a way to treat your customers.
Yes, problem is always on your server side!

Could you please stop ranting? Is that too much to ask for? We said already several times, that we are working on a workaround. Is that so hard to understand? Code doesn't grow on trees or drops from the sky. You have to develop it and test it and that takes time.

We finished the changes today and the next release (pre-beta 2.43) will work this way: The authentication distinguishes between connection problems and incorrect credentials. If a connection problem occured, Octane automatically retries after 10 seconds. During those 10 seconds you can always cancel the loop and Octane will close. This loop is repeated until a connection has been established. If the authentication then fails due to incorrect credentials, the OctaneLive account dialog is shown (as before). If they are correct, Octane continues with loading the scene and rendering.

We hope that will solve the animation problems.

Cheers,
Marcus

Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:56 am

danilius wrote:Can anyone of the team give an indication as to when the Linux version of 2.4 will come out? Is it something that will happen in the next few days - weeks - months? I'm only nagging because they has barely been a word about it, and the New Year's competition is almost over. Yes, I have submitted an entry, but want to submit another one which represents too much work to fiddle with in my spare time (open, fiddle, save, close, open some time later - blast! everything is mixed up and some nodes won't connect, fiddle again, repeat, lather, rinse). Now you know why I'm bald.

Cheers.

Sorry, I can't give you a specific date, but I expect it only to be a matter of days and yes the competition will be extended, due to the lack of a Linux version. I'm sorry about the delay. We are working on it.

Cheers,
Marcus

Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:49 am

abstrax wrote:[...We finished the changes today and the next release (pre-beta 2.43) will work this way: The authentication distinguishes between connection problems and incorrect credentials. If a connection problem occured, Octane automatically retries after 10 seconds. During those 10 seconds you can always cancel the loop and Octane will close. This loop is repeated until a connection has been established. If the authentication then fails due to incorrect credentials, the OctaneLive account dialog is shown (as before). If they are correct, Octane continues with loading the scene and rendering.

We hope that will solve the animation problems.

Cheers,
Marcus

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" Sorry, I can't give you a specific date, but I expect it only to be a matter of days and yes the competition will be extended, due to the lack of a Linux version. I'm sorry about the delay. We are working on it."

great news!:))
i am really happy about that annnoucement,thought it would take month..
this sounds like a very promising workaround for the anim!!
also cant wait for linux.. but as long as the competition is extended, -relax take your time to make a clean linux build:)

THX:)
keep up