Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion

[Alexandre Besson]

Same here for a long time (I also suspect railclone and forestpack)

[Alexandre Besson]

Seems to be similar to :

https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-ray-for-3ds-max-forums/v-ray-for-3ds-max-problems/967548-v-ray-3-6-vfb-hangs

[Dom74]

Can anyone please do anything about the VFB dancing all around in most times when I rneder while rendering or IR, especially when I have both my 4K screens on?it is very similar to

except many times fster dancing and flickering.
this is driving me nuts every day I have to force close max many times makes me lose so much time!!!
Anyone else having this???

can it be related to the autosave, 3DSMAX or Corona CXR?

[ihabkal]

I did what agentdark45 (thank you) proposed, cool'n'quiet is the AMD equivalent for speedstep, I dsabled it in bios and the system seems more responsive, I can switch from max while corona renders to other programs so smoothly now, but i only did small region renders I will come back if this doesn't work. but i tell you I don't mind spending a little more in electricity to have a very expensive 64 threads machine that acts like 64 threads!. this cool'nquiet did handicapp my system for a year now. it does feel more fluid.

[FrostKiwi]

Optix seems to be busted in the last update. (GTX 770 here)
If I upgrade to the latest NVIDIA driver, it complains that the expected Optix Version is 6.0.0, but the available is 6.5.0
Downgrading the driver errors out with

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Failed to initialize the denoiser.
Unknown error (Details: Function "_rtBufferCreate" caught exception: Encountered a rtcore error: m_exports->rtcDeviceContextCreateForCUDA( context, devctx ) returned (2): Invalid device context)
Both version daily-2019-08-27 and daily-2019-09-16 are broken in that way for me.
Had to downgrade Corona to daily-2019-08-07 to get it working again.

[rowmanns]

Hi,

For the window flickering/freezing, please create a new topic on the Bug Reporting section of the forums.

This has nothing to do with the v5 Daily builds. It feels like I am talking into a vacuum here!

Cheers,

Rowan

[rowmanns]

Optix seems to be busted in the last update. (GTX 770 here)
If I upgrade to the latest NVIDIA driver, it complains that the expected Optix Version is 6.0.0, but the available is 6.5.0
Downgrading the driver errors out with

Code: [Select]

Failed to initialize the denoiser.
Unknown error (Details: Function "_rtBufferCreate" caught exception: Encountered a rtcore error: m_exports->rtcDeviceContextCreateForCUDA( context, devctx ) returned (2): Invalid device context)
Both version daily-2019-08-27 and daily-2019-09-16 are broken in that way for me.
Had to downgrade Corona to daily-2019-08-07 to get it working again.

Hi,

Did you try a complete uninstall and reinstall of Corona?

Thanks,

Rowan

[JViz]

there is a new bug, the 3ds max windows keep flickering/freezing it might be the v5 Daily build. anyone got that too?

[rowmanns]

there is a new bug, the 3ds max windows keep flickering/freezing it might be the v5 Daily build. anyone got that too?

:/

I should have expected this.. :D

[romullus]

I guess you'll have to report it yourself :]

[arqrenderz]

there is a new bug, the 3ds max windows keep flickering/freezing it might be the v5 Daily build. anyone got that too?

:/

I should have expected this.. :D

Just lol :)  keep up the good vibes guys :)

[FrostKiwi]

Did you try a complete uninstall and reinstall of Corona?

Yes, twice. Complete uninstall before trying daily-2019-08-27 and daily-2019-09-16.
I double checked, that the old denoiser was gone and the installer did also redownload the denoiser.

When I downgraded to daily-2019-08-07 I did not reinstall and it worked.
tl;dr recap:
Newest Nvidia Driver -> "Error, expected Optix 6.0.0, but you have 6.5.0"
Driver 418.81 -> "Error as posted here"

[JViz]

there is a new bug, the 3ds max windows keep flickering/freezing it might be the v5 Daily build. anyone got that too?

:/

I should have expected this.. :D

yes! so it is the V5 build. I knew it

[rowmanns]

Did you try a complete uninstall and reinstall of Corona?

Yes, twice. Complete uninstall before trying daily-2019-08-27 and daily-2019-09-16.
I double checked, that the old denoiser was gone and the installer did also redownload the denoiser.

When I downgraded to daily-2019-08-07 I did not reinstall and it worked.
tl;dr recap:
Newest Nvidia Driver -> "Error, expected Optix 6.0.0, but you have 6.5.0"
Driver 418.81 -> "Error as posted here"

Hi,

Do you have any other renderers or 3rd party plugins installed which could be using Optix?

Thanks,

Rowan

[FrostKiwi]

other renderers or 3rd party plugins installed which could be using Optix?

Nope, just corona.

Maybe it's something with backwards compatibility, considering this is the kepler architecture? This is the oldest supported architecture of optix after all....
Can I give some more indepth info? Some log or something?

edit:

ohhhhhhhh no.
Support for kelper is dropped with Optix 6.0 :[

All Users with a GTX 6xx or 7xx can go home.
The 780ti is still a very popular card and support is dropped, god damn.
Can you somehow provide both version? Download 6.X.X Optix for newer GTX cards and an optional download with Optix 5.X.X for Kepler (GTX 6XX and GTX 7XX and first gen GTX Titan) cards?

edit2: Considering how on my GTX 770 even a 4k denoise is instant, I kinda insist for Corona's optix to be backwards compatible :P