octane don't run on mac pro

[SurfingAlien]

I have A Macpro with Quadro FX4500 somebody tell me if can hope mke working octane or I need to re-invest in another graphic card.

Thank

Hi!
better double check on the nVidia website (technology/cuda/cuda gpu) but I'm afraid the 4500fx is not listed among the CUDA capable cards (it should have a 7xxx series chip)

[erikde]

2000 € in a Quadro 4500 one years ago and nvidia dont develop cuda for this card, FUCK NVIDIA !!!

[radiance]

2000 € in a Quadro 4500 one years ago and nvidia dont develop cuda for this card, FUCK NVIDIA !!!

Hi, this card is not one years old, it's much older... if you bought it last year you bought an old card last year...

Radiance

[tenka1]

Greetings, I'm a new user trying the demo.

Currently using C4D on Macintosh Snow Leopard, and would love to try octane render for our rendering needs.
I'm running a MacPro with an ATI card, does that mean we'd have to upgrade our studio's mac pros to nvidia if we want to use octane?

[mib2berlin]

Yes, ati cards don't provides cuda what is nesesary for octane renderer.

Cheers ,mib

[shtl]

Hi there.
Anychance to have some feedback please?
I tested again, re-did all installs. It keep on crashing at the rendering moment (when clicking on the mesh node)
If I hide the rendering viewport (set to node inspector for exemple) and click on the mesh, no crash.
If i switch from Node inspector to render viewport, crash.
Some few time with crash report, but most often just crash.

Is it because of the GT120 that is too old?

Thanks for feeback.

regards


corentin aka shtl

Hi there!
At least ! I could boot octane on my macpro !

For info, it's a 2.26 xeon.
Octane boots under 10.6.4
Just check that Cuda is up to date in system prefs. (3.1.10) Before I reboot my mac and Cuda rings for the update, octane wouldn't boot at all.
And I (only) have a GT 120

So.

Imported obj, added sky and cam, than crash!
very frustrating...





here's the bugreport... hope it's not to bad ! ^^
http://www.pasteall.org/14258

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EDIT:
I tried with more simple object (simple revolution on a plane), the crash occur when clicking on the mesh node.

[shtl]

Here another crash report:

http://www.pasteall.org/14257

[mib2berlin]

Hi it would be nicer you put such long crash reports to http://www.pasteall.org/ or similar,
it very hard to follow the thread.

Cheers, mib

[radiance]

Hi,

Current 2.2 versions use cuda 3.0, not cuda 3.1
Can you try with installing cuda 3.0 toolkit and drivers ?

Radiance

[shtl]

Hi it would be nicer you put such long crash reports to http://www.pasteall.org/ or similar,
it very hard to follow the thread.

Cheers, mib

Hi guys,

we need everyone's problem with more details, if octane does'nt work on your OSX machine, there's likely something not correctly installed,
so we need individual information, eg, the details of the crash report would help.

Radiance

But OK, I'll edit posts...

Hi,

Current 2.2 versions use cuda 3.0, not cuda 3.1
Can you try with installing cuda 3.0 toolkit and drivers ?

Radiance

...
..

just found the 10.6.4 thread (in the customers forum): the new 3.1.10 CUDA driver seems to have solved the problem

Ah well OK, thanks for answer. OK i'll try downgrade to cuda 3.0 then. And will come back for report.
C-Ya