I need advise, I have standalone version but I do not use it often.
But plugin for 3ds max is very perspective for me.
(i7,6gb ram, GPU 560ti 1GB)
Im trying demo plugin for now.
Example: scene with 5 trees (3 500 000polys) ,diffuse material (octane),octane camera,octane daylight. When render began : 1. Processing Geometry spend 7 minutes then started Rendering but after few minutes I still had black in render window.
I tried it with easier scene : Only audi r8 (500 000 polys) and plane but it was same.
But when I tried more easy scene :
One tree(1000 000polys) processing time was under 1min. and render time (relative)fast
I read that 1-2GB card is enought strong for - 3-4 milions of poly, but not for me.
1GB GPU is not enought ? or what´s wrong, I need use some special technique ?
I´ve got job, I will make and render long animation of cars and I need short render time per frame that´s reason for Octane.
Thing about better pc (i7 3rd generation , 32GB Ram, gtx680 4GB maybe 2x)
If I buy gtx 680 4GB with 1536 CUDA cores How it will work for example with scene : 20-30gb of RAM
Will it work good if it?
How can I do this large scene with GPU ?
I was looking for solutions or informations but I still don´t know nothing important.
Pleas, help me!

With respect