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zga042 wrote:

calus wrote:

jjmotionstudio wrote:I may have missed this somewhere, but does this release of Octane 3 support non-cuda GPUs?At my company, we are all on AMD cards still and we've been anxiously awaiting 3.0. If it's not part of 3.0, do you know when it will be a feature?

AMD cards are still not supported and there's no ETA for when they will be supported.

Is OpenCL support an 'in progress' thing or a 'never going to happen' thing? Just asking for upgrade purposes.

OpenCL support is never going to happen, Otoy instead works on a compiler to directly use the octane Cuda code on AMD GPU and on other plateform.
Otoy already showed a video of Octane working with a AMD card but aparently was just a prototype.
From the GTC presentation we may think it could be ready eventually after summer, but you can't trust this date more than a rumor.

calus wrote:
OpenCL support is never going to happen, Otoy instead works on a compiler to directly use the octane Cuda code on AMD GPU and on other plateform.
Otoy already showed a video of Octane working with a AMD card but aparently was just a prototype.
From the GTC presentation we may think it could be ready eventually after summer, but you can't trust this date more than a rumor.

As you saw in the video, Octane really is working on AMD cards without us having to do an OpenCL port . But we are running into driver issues that we need to see fixed by the vendor before we release this to users. We also have to do a solid round of performance tuning, same we are about to do on Pascal GPUs.

Goldorak wrote: As you saw in the video, Octane really is working on AMD cards without us having to do an OpenCL port . But we are running into driver issues that we need to see fixed by the vendor before we release this to users. We also have to do a solid round of performance tuning, same we are about to do on Pascal GPUs.

Thanks for the update about this:)

I have 2 licenses.
But, I can't activate 2nd license.
Octane render show me message 'Sign-in as a different user’.
How can I activate two license with same ID, PS.
Please help me.

Hello,

One Qestion. Is it possible to use Octanes v2 After Updating to v3.

Best wishes,
Fabian

MythosK wrote:Hello,

One Qestion. Is it possible to use Octanes v2 After Updating to v3.

Best wishes,
Fabian

Yes, sure
ciao beppe

Does CodeMeter still need to be installed for V3.

Hey guys , first of all thank the OTOY team for the new version of Octane 3.0! Ok , I went from version 2.24 to 3.0 Standalone (upgrade); was testing the new features, so I wanted to do a comparative speed between the two versions . The problem is that once my license 3.0 on, I could not work in version 2.24 ...
I disabled the license in 3.0 , I waited two hours to activate at 2.24 but I does not give access , any help please ? Octane says: "Invalid OctaneLive standalone account". (All this is on the same machine)

Finally I could find the solution. To access the version 2.24, you need to place a user code and password that are specific Octane Live Accounts within the " Licenses" tab.
Ok , I did some quick tests. Night Scene complex in Diffuse mode:

OCTANE 2.44:
Time: 9:43 min
Ram used: 1076.70 Mb.
Overall appearance: Much noise, red fireflies

OCTANE 3.00
Time: 5:54 min
Ram used: 1737.90 Mb.
Overall appearance: The same 2.44 but: more noise , less tone and darker.

In conclusion , Octane 3.0 is faster but consumes more RAM and images out inexplicably darker and less color tone ... If someone could make a new topic in the forum as " Octane 3.0 vs Octane 2.24 " , could put more results with images.
Some improvement would be appreciated , greetings :
Kross .

Hi Kross,
great that you have solved with authentication, but before jumping to conclusions about v3, please, have a look at this post about all the new v3 features:
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=51679
ciao beppe