Re: Octane Render crashes in the middle of rendering animations
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:20 pm
Thanks for this info Ryan! It's been awhile since I've had any rendering issue with Octane other than the occasional crash, which is more or less par for the course with Octane. I had encountered some crashes while testing out the RTX feature of Octane 2020, but this was to be expected since it is still an experimental build.ryanaexavier wrote:
I'd like to chime in on this as your answer has solidified my thoughts. I have a similar build. 2x 2070 supers (literally got installed yesterday) and 1 1080ti (have always had). I had always OC'd my single 1080ti prior to getting the 2070 supers, assuming that regardless, at some level it has to be better than not OC'ing. I never had even one issue OC'ing the 1080ti and rendering via the queue or any other means. That being said I have noticed this issue in full affect since I installed and OC'd the two additional 2070s (only running those two cards with the 1080ti disabled in octane) with my renders being specifically vectron but I have the feeling this would happen with any content such as you explained in your OP.
After reading your post I realized that the one time got my render queue to successfully go through 3 different renders (385 frames each), I had also forgotten to enable my OC, meaning that the issue, for some reason, probably has to do with the OC directly.
Furthermore when I was testing my OC initially with Octane, even though my OC worked fine in games and other benchmarks with flying colors, If I tried to render something with a high OC in the live viewer, it would immediately go to a render failure. I then tried to slowly lower the clock till I could get octane to work which I did with the below settings, only to later realize this is more than likely the cause of the issue with the render queue.
I will be running some renders tonight to test out this theory.
Hope this thread helps somebody else
I'm definitely curious to see where your testing takes you. Did you ever notice boosts in rendering speed when you were OC'ing your 1080ti (before you got your 2070s and the crashes started happening)? I ultimately didn't notice any real speed boosts, though I would like to have the option to OC my cards for gaming purposes. I suppose I could switch over to an OC profile while gaming, and then back to the standard profile while using Octane. But it would be nice to just leave the OC profile on all the time and know that it will be stable regardless of what software I'm using.
What app are you using to control your GPUs and CPUs? I've never heard of Precision X1. Was that an app that came with one of your cards or is it available for download somewhere? I find the MSI Afterburner app to be alright, but it could be simpler and a bit more intuitive. I haven't done a ton of research admittedly, though I still haven't found any general OC information out there that is simple and straightforward i.e. what settings should be tweaked and which ones should be left alone, what the difference is between Core Clock and Memory Clock, how does the Core Voltage and Power Limit factor in, etc.