Switching between Mac and PC

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william.geddes
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Hello!

Very interested in purchasing Octane. The demo has been wonderful, and it's obviously a powerful renderer.

I do most of my day to day work in Cinema 4D on a Mac. But because Octane is designed for powerful GPUs, I would love to be able to also render on my PC that has a GTX970 in it.

Am I able to install Octane on both machines provided I don't use them simultaneously, similar to the way X-particles works? Or is this a situation where I use Octane on PC exclusively or otherwise pay double the price? This would be for personal use only, not a studio. And it would only be these two specific machines, not any others.

Cheers, and great job on this renderer.
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Yeah You can order one licence.. & simply deactivate it once You're done on Mac let's say. After that simply login on Your PC & continue work. One You done with that, deactivate licence again...& once You'll be back on Mac, You'll be able to use it. It's simple concept really Just need few seconds to do that.
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Thanks very much! Looks like this solution should work perfectly for me.
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william.geddes wrote:Thanks very much! Looks like this solution should work perfectly for me.
Just keep in mind there would be some down time involved between moving from one cpmputer to other due to activation/reactivation.
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glimpse wrote:Yeah You can order one licence.. & simply deactivate it once You're done on Mac let's say. After that simply login on Your PC & continue work. One You done with that, deactivate licence again...& once You'll be back on Mac, You'll be able to use it. It's simple concept really Just need few seconds to do that.
...in the past, but from v3 Alpha 10, the system has completely revisited and much more easy for the final user ;)
The new activation system automatically take care of all the licenses of the user and activates / deactivates them on the fly, without the needs to copy/paste licenses numbers or waiting for 60 minutes anymore ;)
ciao beppe
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bepeg4d wrote:
glimpse wrote:Yeah You can order one licence.. & simply deactivate it once You're done on Mac let's say. After that simply login on Your PC & continue work. One You done with that, deactivate licence again...& once You'll be back on Mac, You'll be able to use it. It's simple concept really Just need few seconds to do that.
...in the past, but from v3 Alpha 10, the system has completely revisited and much more easy for the final user ;)
The new activation system automatically take care of all the licenses of the user and activates / deactivates them on the fly, without the needs to copy/paste licenses numbers or waiting for 60 minutes anymore ;)
ciao beppe
wow, that sounds great! =) thanks for input! i was wondering why I needed to login on that screen with forum user name..-though something was going on but I cuoldn't understand the implications =)
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