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Does anyones else encounter this problem?

I can leave a render overnight in order to get up to sufficient number of samples. In the morning, I pause the render in order to have a look at the final result. Here is where the lottery starts. I would say that 25% of the time, when I zoom into the image, Octane goes into a "not responding" state. It simply stays in this state until I shut it down. So my all night render has been wasted

If anyone has a solution, even better.

Sorry to sound simplistic but the obvious solution for now until the next build is to not zoom until you have the render sitting in Photoshop or something happily. I haven't experienced that particular problem by the way but then I probably haven't done exactly what you do (could also have to do with hardware/driver combination etc).

Well, that is the obvious answer but then I don't know how much of the new funky hot pixel removal tool to use. I suppose I could start rendering at 100% but then I would need to know where the highest areas of hot pixels would be.

I guess what I will have to do is save the image as is and then zoom in. At least if it crashes then everything won't be lost. I will just end up with an image with hot pixels.

In the "Mesh Preview Kernel" change rayepsilon to 0.0020 or more.

it could also be a heat issue.
once octane runs and it stays stable it should stay stable for overnight renders.
have you tried slightly underclocking your GPU ?

Radiance