You need Octane 2.57 and the 2.57 plugin.
2.52 is no good.
Find 2.57 in the Release candidate testing forum.
Find 2.57 plugin in Plugin/discussion support forum/ Autodesk 3d Max.
HTH
I was excited to see the description of this package when I saw that in this version Octane supported multiple video card brands. I used both the installer and zip package to run Octane, but it will not recognize my nvidia card. I have the driver version 285.62 installed on a fresh load of windows 7. I read elsewhere that Octane could not use two types of video cards, but this post has me confused. Is it supported, or isn't it? If it is, how can it be failing on a fresh install with current drivers for both cards? Do I need to uninstall AMD's FUEL?
Italic_ wrote:I was excited to see the description of this package when I saw that in this version Octane supported multiple video card brands. I used both the installer and zip package to run Octane, but it will not recognize my nvidia card. I have the driver version 285.62 installed on a fresh load of windows 7. I read elsewhere that Octane could not use two types of video cards, but this post has me confused. Is it supported, or isn't it? If it is, how can it be failing on a fresh install with current drivers for both cards? Do I need to uninstall AMD's FUEL?
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maybe a misunderstanding about what brand means... where have you read that? octane was and is a cuda application, and cuda is nvida only. in order to use your nvidia card together with an amd card, for i.e. physx in games or cuda applications like octane, you need hacked drivers or simply to disable the amd card. nvidia prevents - on the driver side - the use of such mixed setups; only exception: onboard intel graphics...
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t_3 wrote:maybe a misunderstanding about what brand means... where have you read that? octane was and is a cuda application, and cuda is nvida only. in order to use your nvidia card together with an amd card, for i.e. physx in games or cuda applications like octane, you need hacked drivers or simply to disable the amd card. nvidia prevents - on the driver side - the use of such mixed setups; only exception: onboard intel graphics...
The description of the new framework describes it as being able to use non-Nvidia cards to display, while using Nvidia cards to render:
abstrax wrote:
Main new features since beta 2.46b
There have been a lot of changes in many areas since beta 2.46b, these were the most important ones:
a completely rewritten render framework, that
allows you to use many GPUs with almost 100% scaling
allows you to enable/disable devices at any time
allows you to use non-NVIDIA cards as display card while using NVIDIA graphics cards for rendering
doesn't crash the application if there is a CUDA problem
future-proofs Octane and allows us to add more advanced features like network rendering in the future
I can only assume this means that my ATI card can be used for my display. However, if it's Nvidia's driver's fault, then I will not argue.
Italic_ wrote:I can only assume this means that my ATI card can be used for my display. However, if it's Nvidia's driver's fault, then I will not argue.
hm, interesting quote. you are right, this leads to think that amd cards should work. but from all what i know, it's the nvidia driver which prevents doing certain things in a amd-nvida config. at least physx is disabled (so people can't use amd cards in games and cheap nvida cards for physx), and i assume, this is true for cuda also. but i'm maybe wrong here. at least intel-nvida works (have it here).
Looked around at that and tried what the guy suggested, but to no avail. My guess is that they patched it in later versions to not work at all. I'll have to hunt down some hacked drivers, because I would love to be able to use both. Anyway, thanks for the help. It's greatly appreciated.