OTOY Forums

Howdy,

Blender crashes when I try to activate Octane addon.
I installed Blender_Octane_Edition_2025.2.1_30.5.0_stable, and OctaneServer_Prime_2025.2.1_30.5_stable but the blender app doesn't show the Octane file under New File or show Octane as a render option. Running Nvidia game ready driver version 577.00 released Jul 22 2025.
Octane Server is running and logged in.
Any ideas on why Blender is Crashing?
Machine is as follows:
Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz
Installed RAM 128 GB
Storage 1.82 TB SSD Samsung
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB)
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Thank you,

Hello,

Thank you for your email.

The first thing I would recommend, would be to uninstall your current Drivers, and replace them with their Studio Driver equivalents. These versions (marked 'SD' for short) are optimized to work with software like OctaneRender, and should be used instead of Game Ready Drivers - while Game Ready Drivers can be functional, they are not considered reliable for use with OctaneRender. There is a strong chance that your current issues are being caused by the Game Ready drivers.



For further assistance, I recommend that you contact OTOY Support. If the fix above doesn't work for you, get in touch with Support and they should help you sort it out.

change Vulkan back to OpenGL in Preferences under System in Display Graphics: Backend that is how my Blender_Octane_Edition_2025.2.1_30.5.0_stable stop crashing windows11 RTX3090 HOPE THIS HELPS