3080 cards and 3080ti

[Sinelab01]

Hi with Octane being no longer developed for Lightwave do the 3080 cards work at all with octane and LW ? I'm looking at upgrading my cards but I still using LW for some work and this would be a great help if anyone could answer ?

[juanjgon]

The current Octane 2021.1 plugin builds work fine with any of the latest Nvidia GPUs, including of course the 30xx GPUs.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[Sinelab01]

Thanks Juanjo for the quick response : )

[stef]

Hi Juanjo !

Do you think Octane 2021.1.5 works well on LW 2015 ? But also with the RTX 3000 ??
And do you have any news on the Free Tier version for 1 GPU ??
Thank you for your fantastic job for LW !

Best regards.
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[juanjgon]

Yes, the plugin should work fine with any LightWave version and the latest Nvidia GPUs, unless LightWave itself had problems with these GPUs.

Sorry, no news about a Free Tier version for 1 GPU.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[stef]

Hi Juanjo,

Thanks for your return.

Apparently only LW 2019 has problems with the RTX 3000s, but it's related to the denoiser, which must be replaced with that of LW 2020.
I don't think LW 2015 suffers from the RTX 3000s, but if there are any feedback experience, they are welcome !
Theoretically LW 2015 only uses OpenGL, no CUDA or RTX optimizations, should that do it ?

I hope that Jules will give us news of the Free Tier version !

Nice continuation to you,
Best regards.
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