Thanks for your suggestions and advice,

Sadly my budget doesn't stretch as far as another £300 on top of what I just spent on my card (too long ago to simply return it) so no licence for me. I can't even get a seccondary card as I only have the one PCI slot. I don't make any money rendering as I'm ...

I have also just discovered that my shiny new graphics card a gtx 970 is not supported in the student version, a shame as I chose to upgrade to nvidia over ati with octane in mind.

I'd certainly have appreciated Otoy making this known somewhere so I didn't spend till 4.30 in the morning making ...