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areyal
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Hi all,

Any way of using octane in a computer through remote desktop?
it says 'no cuda devices found'

thanks
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jamnique
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areyal wrote:Hi all,

Any way of using octane in a computer through remote desktop?
it says 'no cuda devices found'

thanks
Can't really confirm that, but i know for sure that TeamViewer works fine for that purpose. You can use it for free as long as you are doing your personal work.
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t_3
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imho all programs started within a win rdp session only see the terminal services vga driver, which gets effective while such a connection is active; thus they have no chance to access any real graphics hardware. the solution is to use vnc or something like that. e.g. ultravnc (free) has quite ok screen performance, and allows an even headless octane station...
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areyal
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Ok, thanks for your replies
I'll try some of the software you said


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t_3
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...on thing to pay attention, if you want to run a headless machine (i.e. no monitor attached), are nvidia driver settings. because the driver decreases gpu clock to minimum after a while, if no monitor is attached - even if octane produces 100% usage. so you need to force a constant clock frequency like this: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=192720
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areyal
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Ahmm.. that's important, thank you t_3
the card I use by now has no monitor and I didn't experiment downclocking. I suppose then It only happens with computers with no monitor at all, even on other cards
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areyal wrote:Ahmm.. that's important, thank you t_3
the card I use by now has no monitor and I didn't experiment downclocking. I suppose then It only happens with computers with no monitor at all, even on other cards
hm, as this is apparently handled on driver level, it could work like that. i have headless machines running (with no monitor attached at all) and did experience this downclocking. it could also be dependent on driver version (nvida does often creatively change things), or other things...
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