Houdini Indie Bewertungen

It's houdini! Steep learning curve, but very powerful. Once you get familiar with the UX, you will not want to go back.

Short version: Not able to use it, constantly crashes to desktop. DO NOT BUY IT! I am using other DCCs without any problem, my main applicatin so far was C4D with Redshift as render engine. I wanted to see what all the fuss about Houdini was about and bought a one year license. I have no idea if this software actually is good as it crashes to desktop seconds after starting it. My rig is a Ryzen 7, 32 GB Ram, RTX 3090 with the latest version of Win 10 /64 and I installed the latest Nvidia Studio drivers. Houdini crashes. I contacted support. The first thing the support person said that my video card does not match the system specifications. Yeah, sure. My RTX 3090 does not meet the specifications. I laughed. Hard. It was clear from the answer that the support person was completely clueless and had absolutely no idea what a RTX 3090 is. I already had tried multiple possible solutions I found on the web and I had mentioned that in my first mail, Nevertheless the support person asked the same questions I had already answered in my that mail. Then they wanted a crash log, but there is none generated. They wanted a project file, but I cannot provide one since Houdini crashes before I can work on anything. The support then said I should contact Steam about this problem. Yeah, sure. What do they think Steam can do about Houdini crashing? Steam is not responsible for a buggy software, SideFX are. I was able to keep it running for one evening by uninstalling, rebooting, then reinstalling. But only for one day. The next day it again crashes to desktop one or two seconds after the gui appears. But from the fact that it was running for a time I clearly deduct that this is a Houdini problem, not a problem with my rig. I have never before seen a presumed professional software that is sold as production ready that is this unstable and I have never before encountered a support this extremely bad from a company selling DCC licenses. Also if you ask in the forums you get absolutely no answers at all. It looks like SideFX is not even answering in there. I strongly suggest that you do not pay money for this software. Don't get me wrong: bugs as this can and will happeb. But at least they could TRY to solve it instead of just saying to me: bad luck, we cannot help you.