Cinema 4D - OctaneX PR11/PR14 builds(Updated on 22.04.2022)

Fri Apr 16, 2021 7:24 pm

Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:33 am

I did not follow this development tightly, so please excuse if I ask something obvious here... What will be the oldest MacOS supported by the final version of Octane X? Will this be Big Sur, or Catalina, or even Mojave? I'm planning to upgrade my old MacPro 5,1 with a Radeon 580 card (now running Nvidia 1080), but I found out today that Cinema R21 - the version I am using - is not even running on Big Sur. I do not like to upgrade to R23, anyway. If Octane X will at least run with Catalina, all would be good for me. It's a complex puzzle...

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:52 am

Hi,
please note that C4D R21 works perfectly under both Catalina and Big Sur, you can have issues with R20 (not fully 64bit), but R21 should work as expected

https://support.maxon.net/kb/faq.php?id=58

About AMD Radeon 580, it is a Polaris GPU, so only supported by latest Apple Metal driver in Mac Os 11.x Big Sur.
Catalina has a limited number of supported AMD GPUs, while Mojave does not support GPU rendering in any way, no Metal, no CUDA rendering on 10.14.x.

So, Big Sur 11.x is the best choice, Apple has stopped to develop the metal driver for Catalina, and in 11.4 is going to arrive the support for new AMD Big Navi 6X00 GPUs.

Happy Mac GPU rendering,
ciao Beppe

Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:35 am

Thanks Beppe for the informtion. The link is not working, unfortunately... I've however seen a lot of informations in different forums about R21 not running under Big Sur.

Mon May 03, 2021 12:55 pm

Is this version Compatible with S24?

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Tue May 04, 2021 7:22 am

@ 3dworks: sorry, Maxon has removed that page, here is the new one:
https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/arti ... -and-older

@ nehale: yes, for C4D S24, you need to keep the R23.xdlib file, and remove the other .xdlib unused files.

ciao Beppe

Tue May 04, 2021 8:50 am

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
please note that C4D R21 works perfectly under both Catalina and Big Sur, you can have issues with R20 (not fully 64bit), but R21 should work as expected
https://support.maxon.net/kb/faq.php?id=58

About AMD Radeon 580, it is a Polaris GPU, so only supported by latest Apple Metal driver in Mac Os 11.x Big Sur.
Catalina has a limited number of supported AMD GPUs, while Mojave does not support GPU rendering in any way, no Metal, no CUDA rendering on 10.14.x.

So, Big Sur 11.x is the best choice, Apple has stopped to develop the metal driver for Catalina, and in 11.4 is going to arrive the support for new AMD Big Navi 6X00 GPUs.

Happy Mac GPU rendering,
ciao Beppe

I can now confirm that my Macpro 5,1 upgraded with opencore and one RX580 8G seems to work well with C4D R21 and the last plugin release under MacOS Big Sur 11.2.3!

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Wed May 05, 2021 8:25 am

Great

Thanks for the report!

Happy Mac GPU rendering,
ciao Beppe

Fri May 14, 2021 3:17 pm

Dear Ahmet

I wanted to check the PR11 on my MacPro but find a message, that there is not the appropriate license... which is not the case, as you can see on my screenshot.
What should I do to make PR11 work?? PR8 works with no problem on the same machine...

kind regards
Martin

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Mon May 17, 2021 6:49 am

Hi Martin,
please remove the installed version, install the following one, and report back, thanks:
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... e-PR11.zip

ciao Beppe