Octane always running?

[Pschelfh]

Could it be that the Octane plugin in DAZ is always running in the background, even if I don't use the Octane viewport and the renderer?
Both my 2 GTX cards are running hotter after working in DAZ with the internal 3Delight renderer (I checked the temp in Afterburner).

I also have the Octane plugin for C4D (demo), but the cards don't kick in when I use the internal C4D renderer.

Thanks,
Peter.

[Spectralis]

Personally, I've not noticed this behaviour. When I close OR to work on a scene my graphics card powers down which I assume is because OR is no longer active. As soon as I open OR's main and viewport windows the graphics card fires up. I have the latest NVidia drivers installed, latest DS release, OR v1.2 plugin, Win 7 x64 and an MSI GTX 780 3GB. OR doesn't work with SLI in case that's relevant but maybe this problem occurs with two or more cards?

[SiliconAya]

Can't say I've had this happen either and I have 2 cards.

[DrHemulen]

If you've been using the CPU renderer for a while, isn't it possible that the general temp. in your case is high, and the GPUs get hot from just sitting there?

[Pschelfh]

Yes, it seems to be my CPU that gets hot, increasing the temp in my case.

Peter.