I totally agree with Adrian about HDD. I have my internal HDD mounted on a drawer, and I have recently purchased a spare drawer (still in its box, not yet installed) for backup purpose or additional storage. As I have currently no available disk, I can't test but it would be very annoying if Octane would stop working when adding, changing or removing a disk.
Why not using as Computer ID only the network controler physical adress, like done by many software editor ? It is on the motherboard, and it is probably the thing that will never be changed except in extremely rare failure situation.
Is it not secure enough ?
When I ordered Octane, I spent a moment looking for it on my machine (I didn't remember the syntax of the command : ipconfig/all) before finding that you used an other method.
hardware changes
French Blender user - CPU : intel Quad QX9650 at 3GHz - 8GB of RAM - Windows 7 Pro 64 bits. Display GPU : GeForce GTX 480 (2 Samsung 2443BW-1920x1600 monitors). External GPUs : two EVGA GTX 580 3GB in a Cubix GPU-Xpander Pro 2. NVidia Driver : 368.22.
All of my "dynamic" drives are connected via USB and I just tried various combinations of connecting and disconnecting them and Octane started up fine in all cases, so that's good enough for me.
Ich bin ein Octaner -- XP 32bit | Geforce 9800GT 1GB | Core2Duo 2.4GHz | 3GB RAM
External drives and other USB peripherals are not a problem, but I was rather worried about internal disks on extractible drawers.
I have finally added a drawer for storage and backup, and Octane works. So, good news : HDD are not an issue.
I have finally added a drawer for storage and backup, and Octane works. So, good news : HDD are not an issue.
French Blender user - CPU : intel Quad QX9650 at 3GHz - 8GB of RAM - Windows 7 Pro 64 bits. Display GPU : GeForce GTX 480 (2 Samsung 2443BW-1920x1600 monitors). External GPUs : two EVGA GTX 580 3GB in a Cubix GPU-Xpander Pro 2. NVidia Driver : 368.22.
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my motherboard blew up (140w cpu in 120w mobo :> ) and i changed it to another one (whoops its also 125w) but everything works? windows also...and its a totally different manufacturer. Wtf.
Win 8.0 64-bit | Gainward 460 GTX 2048mb (driver: latest) | Phenom 965 3.4ghz 140w | 12GB
Win 8.1 64-bit | EVGA 780ti Superclocked 3072mb (driver: latest) | i7 4930k 3.4ghz | 32GB
Win 7 64-bit Bootcamp | 650M 1GB (driver: 327.23) | i7 2.7ghz | 8GB
Win 8.1 64-bit | EVGA 780ti Superclocked 3072mb (driver: latest) | i7 4930k 3.4ghz | 32GB
Win 7 64-bit Bootcamp | 650M 1GB (driver: 327.23) | i7 2.7ghz | 8GB
Why wouldn't windows work? Last time when upgraded my PC I changed graphic card(ati 3850-> nvidia 8800gt), mobo and cpu (amd x2 -> intel core2duo). I thought that PC is not going to boot at all but it did:) Just installed new drivers and it worked fine. I reinstalled windows many months after that.
I think that want @understand means is that Octane works... Right ?
French Blender user - CPU : intel Quad QX9650 at 3GHz - 8GB of RAM - Windows 7 Pro 64 bits. Display GPU : GeForce GTX 480 (2 Samsung 2443BW-1920x1600 monitors). External GPUs : two EVGA GTX 580 3GB in a Cubix GPU-Xpander Pro 2. NVidia Driver : 368.22.
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no everything works i meant..including zbrush and octane license.
before if i breathed on the video card, zbrush would get reset and need to be relicensed and stuff
before if i breathed on the video card, zbrush would get reset and need to be relicensed and stuff
Win 8.0 64-bit | Gainward 460 GTX 2048mb (driver: latest) | Phenom 965 3.4ghz 140w | 12GB
Win 8.1 64-bit | EVGA 780ti Superclocked 3072mb (driver: latest) | i7 4930k 3.4ghz | 32GB
Win 7 64-bit Bootcamp | 650M 1GB (driver: 327.23) | i7 2.7ghz | 8GB
Win 8.1 64-bit | EVGA 780ti Superclocked 3072mb (driver: latest) | i7 4930k 3.4ghz | 32GB
Win 7 64-bit Bootcamp | 650M 1GB (driver: 327.23) | i7 2.7ghz | 8GB