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A. Windows 11 Pro 22621.2215
B. RTX 3080 10GB
C. 32GB DDR5 CL40 6000Mhz
D. 536.99 [r536_92]
E. 2022.1.2
F. 2022.1.2-R2
G. Maxon Cinema 4D 2023.2.2
H.

Depending on the render settings for what frames to render, the final render via Picture Viewer gets stuck on Preparing... for upward of 10 minutes, actually never succeeded once.
I have a 1000 frame animation, and when I set the frame range settings to:

Manual, From 00:33:14, To 00:37:01
Project Settings: Time Min: 00:00:00, Time Max: 00:42:00

the render does not even start in picture viewer, but live viewer works. However, instead of changing the frame range, by changing the project settings, the scene loads in 9 seconds:

Manual, From 00:33:14, To 00:37:01 (this does not matter, All Frames works well)
Project Settings: Time Min: 00:33:14, Time Max: 00:37:01

So the issue is it doesn't even start to export to Octane if the manual frame range is too far from the start and end time of the project settings.

I. Octane log does not open when I click the button in the live viewer whilst the picture viewer is open, console window is empty as octane doesn't even attempt to start exporting:

Loaded Octane DLL:OctaneRender Studio+ 2022.1.1 version:12000102 SDK:2022.1.1
OctaneRender for Cinema 4D 2022.1.1-[R6] built for:20230 C4D vers:2023202
C4D:2023202 comp:[Foliate] OS:[WINDOWS 64 BIT] Windows 11, 64 Bit, Professional Edition (build 22621) versType:10
CPU:[GenuineIntel, stepping 1, model 7, instruction family 6] speed:3.42 GHz numOfCpu:24
Plugins:[cadexchangeconfig substanceconfig addons advanced_render alembic aligntools analytics archigrass assetbrowser bitmapfilter booleans bpexchange browser bugslife_client c4d_emulation c4d_viewport_render c4dOctane-R2023 ca ca2 cadexchange ChaosScatter clothilde collada14 collada15 colorchoosergui compositing cyctypes d5converter deltamush deployment dropzone dwg dwgobjects dynamics exchanges expressiontag fbx gltf gorillacam goz greyscalegorillahub hair hdrilink i_skp interop interop_forger io_forger io_obj lightkit3 lighttypes metrics mkmodeler mocca model mograph motioncam motiontracker nbo nbp newman nodeeditor2 objects pbd_simulations physx_hybrid pluslibrary projectassetinspector python redshift relaxuv scenemanager2 sculpt sculptbrushes shader signal sketch sky sla socialframe spacemouse substance teamrender thinking_particles tool_system_hybrid topcoat tpoperators usd uvviewport volumes VRayForCinema xpressocore xtensions ]
NVAPI initializing...
NVAPI Version: NVidia Complete Version 1.10
Nvidia driver version:536.99 [r536_92]
Loaded 175 osl scripts from dir:C:\Program Files\Maxon\Maxon Cinema 4D 2023\plugins\c4doctane\res\osl_scripts
OCIO config file:D:\Assets\config.ocio loaded.
VRAM used/free/max:0Kb/10Gb/10Gb Out-of-core used:0Kb RAM used:12.359Gb total:31.763Gb OpenGL free/total:0/0
File not found:C:/Users/Folium/AppData/Roaming/Maxon/Maxon Cinema 4D 2023_7FD4DB7A/updates2020.txt

Does it work if you switch render engine to standard?

When you render in c4d it needs to preroll. ie if you are rendering from 00:33:00 then c4d will play every frame from the start, until it reaches the first frame, then rendering will begin. If you have a heavy scene with physics etc then it may take 10-20 minutes before any render engine would start rendering.

What @boxfx said that is true.