Octane Plugin for Carrara compatibility problem.

namtar3d

Well... I recently bought a new PC rig with Ryzen 7 and RTX 4070, so today I tried to run my beloved Carrara and it's Octane plugin, but it seems not work anymore with this rig. 

Pretty sad, I paid a very expensive price for this plugin, but I can't go back to my old PC. Maybe it's just time to say goodbye to this beautiful, but so long abandoned software. :(

WendyLuvsCatz

do make sure it's not an extension conflict first

Mimic was breaking it on my new C drive for some reason

also Otoy sent me a system profiler when I contacted support

I am still using OR4 and Win10 with a 2080Ti on a Ryzen3 though but latest Nvidia driver so it should be doable

Diomede

Greetings, namtar3d.  As Wendy says, please make sure that it is not something with an easy fix.  Love the specs of your new rig.  Hope you get much enjoyment from it.  If it does turn out to be time for you to say farewell, then I wish you the very best in your new efforts, and hope you drop in from time to time to share what you have been doing.

namtar3d

Hi, thank you for your answers, I just sent an email to otoy support team, I hope they can give me a fix. Octane have this amazing look that I can't reach with Iray. It would be very sad I can't use my licence anymore. 

Anyway, Carrara started to ask me too for my Architools plugin serial, and it seems to forgot it every time I open Carrara again. Very weird. 

WendyLuvsCatz

namtar3d said:

Hi, thank you for your answers, I just sent an email to otoy support team, I hope they can give me a fix. Octane have this amazing look that I can't reach with Iray. It would be very sad I can't use my licence anymore. 

Anyway, Carrara started to ask me too for my Architools plugin serial, and it seems to forgot it every time I open Carrara again. Very weird. 

run as administrator

also grab the version that is opensource https://github.com/Chaplier/inagoni/releases/tag/v1.0?fbclid=IwAR3lM3yptVqAqC6-z4AISXXDEboBuyb0Ipr54jOZbzzdFn44PQlPlegqgEk

Steve K

Sorry to hear about the problems.  I still run Carrara almost daily on a high spec 12 core AMD machine with Win10.  But not with some of the plugins you list.  Good luck with the fixes folks here recommend.

namtar3d

"Hello,
 
Thank you for reaching out to us.. 

Octane v4 does not support the latest GPUs like your RTX 4070. 
 
Octane supports such newer GPUs starting from version v2020.2.
 
I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,
Gabriele
Octane Support Team"

Then is settled, my octane plugin for Carrara is dead. (Unless I pay for subscription, what makes no sense since I paid a lot for that plugin) 

I will try to install my old RTX 1080 on my new rig aside my 4070, but I think It will be impossible with my current power supply.I will need a new power source. I'll come back and tell you my result when I get it.

Thank you for your answers, I really hope this isn't the end of Carrara for me.

WendyLuvsCatz

looks like it's the end of Octane

Carrara still works,

good thing my computer wouldn't support a 40## card either by looks 

subscription ware is like that, they make stuff obsolete so you need to pay 

yeah if you can afford it grabbing a secondhand 2080Ti cheap wouldn't be a bad idea

I have similar redundancy issues with my old Win7 rig that wouldn't even support later Windows due to hardware limitations so later DAZ studio versions than 4.21 wouldn't use iray on a GPU if I can ever even get my 980Ti to not blackscreen it (more hardware issues) I do use both computers though,

a cheap second computer for Carrara with Octane could  also be an option for you

 

namtar3d

WendyLuvsCatz said:

looks like it's the end of Octane

Carrara still works,

good thing my computer wouldn't support a 40## card either by looks 

subscription ware is like that, they make stuff obsolete so you need to pay 

yeah if you can afford it grabbing a secondhand 2080Ti cheap wouldn't be a bad idea

I have similar redundancy issues with my old Win7 rig that wouldn't even support later Windows due to hardware limitations so later DAZ studio versions than 4.21 wouldn't use iray on a GPU if I can ever even get my 980Ti to not blackscreen it (more hardware issues) I do use both computers though,

a cheap second computer for Carrara with Octane could  also be an option for you

Carrara still works, yes, but honestly the only thing I still do in carrara is to assemble a scene and render with octane. Any other feature is easier to do in Blender or Zbrush. 

RTX 20XX works with Octane Carrara Plugin? 

 

WendyLuvsCatz

well my 2080Ti certainly does on Win10

it's more of a card and version limitation than a Carrara limitation 

you likely will run into this issue with Octane and  it's plugins for any software 

try the standalone to see

otherwise there always is that free Carrara plugin called DAZ studio with iray you can export obj's to

the latest beta rigged FBX is working really well too

Headwax

Wendy said

 

otherwise there always is that free Carrara plugin called DAZ studio with iray you can export obj's to

 

Heh, just love it

namtar3d

I finally manage to use Octane render, installing my old GTX 1080 aside my RTX 4070.  By default it given me an error and carrara crashed so many times. 

BUT, if you go to NVIDIA control panel, 3D configuration, Program configuration and deactivate 4070 CUDA cores for Carrara, then It gonna work smoothly. 

I find very sad and unfair that I can't use my 4070 for Carrara plugin, since it was so expensive. But well, this is the solution I found.  

Headwax

Great news!  Time to change tge thread title :) 

WendyLuvsCatz

so glad you got it working and it's not Carrara that's the problem 

rather as I said Otoy not supporting later cards with older versions

unfortunate but I guess they want to sell their subscription service 

tsarist

I never got Octane to work, it always gave me an image with just a bunch of yellow plus signs or some such thing. You probably know what I mean. I was disappointed with it