Why does Octane v1.2 standalone not see GTX970 CUDA cores?

Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:06 am

I just installed my spanking new Asus GTX 970 Strix, and to my utter disbelief and sadness, Octane doesn't recognize this GPU.

The card works fine otherwise, so that's not the problem.

In the CUDA devices panel, it shows the name of the card, how much VRAM, etc, but under cores it shows a question mark. The render viewport also shows a status item in red, telling me that it is unable to render anything because no CUDA device is present.

Various other tools that display hardware information show me that there are 1,664 cores. So I'm pretty sure it's not the hardware.

Do I need some kind of patch? Is maybe a settings file corrupted?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:10 am

Oh, and of course I updated the driver, so that's also covered.

Sat Feb 07, 2015 3:20 am

I suspect Octane 1.20 doe not support your card.

http://render.otoy.com/faqs.php - "What are the hardware requirements for Octane Render?"

Paul

Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:12 pm

The core of the 1.2 does not support GTX970 V2 support

Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:14 pm

So, if I have a GTX970, I can't use Octane educational?

Not going to lie, I'm disappointed. :/

Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:10 pm

felimoreira wrote:So, if I have a GTX970, I can't use Octane educational?

Not going to lie, I'm disappointed. :/

Send me You 970, I'll give You 670 =) same 4GB of vram, bit slower, but You can use demo..or educational version, otherwise get a license =)

Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:57 am

glimpse wrote:
felimoreira wrote:So, if I have a GTX970, I can't use Octane educational?

Not going to lie, I'm disappointed. :/
Send me You 970, I'll give You 670 =) same 4GB of vram, bit slower, but You can use demo..or educational version, otherwise get a license =)

Educational licenses are locked on 1.20 or older.
1.20 or older can't "see" GTX 970.
So, I can't use Octane Educational.

As much as I would love buying a license, I can't afford at this moment.

Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:51 am

felimoreira wrote:
Educational licenses are locked on 1.20 or older.
1.20 or older can't "see" GTX 970.
So, I can't use Octane Educational.

As much as I would love buying a license, I can't afford at this moment.

I do understand this =) I just made an offer =) to swap (change cards) - so You could use educational version without buying a licence. Yes it's sort of monkey business (though I'm not willing to spend my money to air), but..at least You'll be able to run program =)