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Hi , i bought my macbookpro laste year in 2009 , it has this 2 cards , one is good one , is a nvidia , must be cuda enabled.


can i use octane ?

is there a way to know if i can or not ?


how do i verify that ?

thanx !

Hello giorgiomartini,

i "think" i have the same MacBookPro, at the moment only the slow card 9400m GT is avaiable in Octane. Sunlight crashes Octane. BUT you can do little things on small scenes.

That is the point only for me here. I know here are mor MacBook users. Would be great, if they can tell us there usability with Octane.
For me: I wait, till the next porting for OSX is out. In this waiting time i play a little with the working functions. Once the 9600m card is available we will see, what is possible, or what not.
(Nomalmap now works for me)

best regards
Frank

giorgiomartini wrote:Hi , i bought my macbookpro laste year in 2009 , it has this 2 cards , one is good one , is a nvidia , must be cuda enabled.


can i use octane ?

is there a way to know if i can or not ?


how do i verify that ?

thanx !

yes you can run Octane on your MBP but you have to use the on board 9400m card (i.e. better memory life setting), so don't expect great performances and don't use large textures and hdris since you can only use 256Mb of shared memory...
I suppose the "good" card is the 9600GT (which is not SO good BTW, but for sure a little better)... have you got the 256 or 512 Mb memory? I think with the 512 you can start making something more complex...
to install Octane:
1) install CUDA drivers
2) install CUDA toolkit
3) install Octane
in this precise order and remember don't switch to high performance mode (-> 9600GT) for now (no, wait... try once so you can confirm the issue on your system too)

side note: I saw in the nVidia forum that 10.6.3 upgrade caused some trouble with CUDA apps... any chance there's someone with a MBP and the 2 cards who still runs 10.6.2 and can try to run in high performance mode?

ciao,
Alessandro

Hi!
I can see that my Macbook Pro intel core 2 Duo (Snow Leopard 10.6.3 ) 8600 M GT has a lot of problem when there are two monitor.
Every time that there was two monitor (dvi) Octane crashed... after I tried about for 35 times only with monitor of the my MacBook Pro and Octane was ok.
Best regards everyone and to italian people..

ciao!

we've already fixed a lot of problems for the OSX version of beta2.1.
i'm also hoping nvidia might release a cuda update soon that fixes more issues on the hardware/driver side of things.

Radiance

great news Radiance, thank you!
let's remember this is just the first OSX release and it already works quite fine...

well , with the high performance card it just wont launch it crashes.


with the other card the less better one , it opens up , but as soon as i try to load any obj it crashes.


ill write later to you what the console says. maybe ill also do a video.

giorgiomartini wrote:well , with the high performance card it just wont launch it crashes.


with the other card the less better one , it opens up , but as soon as i try to load any obj it crashes.


ill write later to you what the console says. maybe ill also do a video.

Hi, i'm hoping newer drivers for mac os X will solve these issues soon.

Radiance

giorgiomartini wrote:well , with the high performance card it just wont launch it crashes.


with the other card the less better one , it opens up , but as soon as i try to load any obj it crashes.


ill write later to you what the console says. maybe ill also do a video.

Giorgio,
are you saying Octane crashes if you try to open it with the 9600GT (i.e. "Prestazioni Migliori" in Preferenze di Sistema/Risparmio Energia) and you don't get a "no cuda capable device... etc." error on start-up?
I ask because if so you have a totally different behavior than me (and anybody with dual GPU MacBookPro here...)

Ciao Giorgio, leggi qui forse ti puo essere di aiuto.

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =25&t=1055