OctaneRender™ Standalone v1.0 RC 1 [obsolete]

[smicha]

https://vimeo.com/52170540

I can not move the ball

You were running out of graphics memory:

out_of_memory.png

No. It's not about memory. Your GPU failed - look at the red font. I had this problem with my GTX 580 at standard voltage. I also had this problem 2 times so far with GTX 680. The only and best solution to avoid failure is to increase voltage (eg. in MSI Afterburner) by eg. 0.05V or more or lower down you clock a little. Right now I set voltage to max in afterburner and overclocked (watercooled) and never fails.

[abstrax]

No. It's not about memory. Your GPU failed - look at the red font. I had this problem with my GTX 580 at standard voltage. I also had this problem 2 times so far with GTX 680. The only and best solution to avoid failure is to increase voltage (eg. in MSI Afterburner) by eg. 0.05V or more or lower down you clock a little. Right now I set voltage to max in afterburner and overclocked (watercooled) and never fails.

Sorry, I have to disagree. If you look at the "memory fill indicator" you can see a grey bar from the left and a red bar from the right. The grey bar shows the memory used by the Octane instance that you are looking at. The red bar shows memory that is "missing" from the available memory, i.e. unaccounted graphics memory. In the video you can see that the red bar is filling almost completely the indicator, i.e. almost all of the available graphics memory is used up by something Octane doesn't know.

There is two possible explanations for the memory usage: Either Octane is leaking GPU memory or some other application uses it. It could be another 3D application, the browser or even the operating systems. Many applications use the GPU for "graphics stuff" these days and eat into your GPU memory budget.

Cheers,
Marcus

[smicha]

Marcus,

If this is the case I truly apologize for messy information. I just wanted to say that in case of GPU failure I increase voltage to gain stability. And I think if gpu fails one need to restart octane or even boot system because - what happened to me - gpu goes into lower voltage state and never comes back to its nominal value, like 1.1V. So if you see "gpu failed" I doubt that objects in preview window will be active.

Kind regards,

Sebastian

[abstrax]

Marcus,

If this is the case I truly apologize for messy information. I just wanted to say that in case of GPU failure I increase voltage to gain stability. And I think if gpu fails one need to restart octane or even boot system because - what happened to me - gpu goes into lower voltage state and never comes back to its nominal value, like 1.1V. So if you see "gpu failed" I doubt that objects in preview window will be active.

Kind regards,

Sebastian

Hey, no need to apologize and yes you are right, that unstable power supplies can spoil the fun with Octane a lot. And yes, if a GPU fails it will not become active again until you deactivate it and activate it again in the preferences. We are looking into automating this, but it's not trivial since after some GPU failures the GPU should stay off.

Cheers,
Marcus

[bepeg4d]

i've got a similar issue, the gpu failed and the ram bar full up with a red color ( it's impossible now not recognised a gpu failure, thanks). with big surprise, in the preferences there was a red allert about obsoleted nvidia drivers.
the strange thing is that before the failure of one gpu, the bar displayed 4 gpu correctly and i have made a lot of tests without any issues.
anyway i have updated the nvidia drivers from 285 to 301.42 and now all works smoothly
ciao beppe

[ashurao]

Hello,
Firstly, I am very happy to see this new version. Octane is near the end of the beta test.

I have the same problem that some users with textures.
I hope that my file can help you.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1082636/Test_octane.zip

Ashurao

[Zay]

Something wrong with the calculation from the .MTL file. Ns 1 = 1.0 roughness, then a really big jump, Ns 2 = 0.5 roughness. Couldn't this be made a more linear calculation like in the previous Octane versions?

[smicha]

I have the same problem that some users with textures.

I confirm. I have the same issue. As I remember well such "circles" occur when scaling is incorrect. But scaling of my objects is fine. My solution for now is by increasing rayepsilon value.

[ashurao]

I have the same problem that some users with textures.

I confirm. I have the same issue. As I remember well such "circles" occur when scaling is incorrect. But scaling of my objects is fine. My solution for now is by increasing rayepsilon value.

I tried this solution, but it did not change anything for me.

[Elvissuperstar007]

rendering speed will return the same?

58e - RC1