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[yashugan]

Hi, i have bought the license, and i'm waiting to activate it becasue i have to buy a new nvidia. The question is: If i activate now my license, when i'll change the video card in the future i have to reactivate it?, And how many time i can activate my render program?
Because is now i have a PC but i will be changed soon. And again i'll have a new hardware.

Thank you!





Miragoli Gianluca

[radiance]

Hi, i have bought the license, and i'm waiting to activate it becasue i have to buy a new nvidia. The question is: If i activate now my license, when i'll change the video card in the future i have to reactivate it?, And how many time i can activate my render program?
Because is now i have a PC but i will be changed soon. And again i'll have a new hardware.

Thank you!





Miragoli Gianluca

switching GPU's does'nt matter. the license will work with your new GPU(s) too.
I'll mail you regarding activations.

Radiance

[afecelis]

Radiance, if possible, could you also email me that info?
I'm also looking forward to upgrading my video card soon, and possibly my whole rig.

[yashugan]

cool,thank you!

[niedzwiedz]

I have a few questions about the registration process. On what is based the generation of my machine id? What happens when I instal it on a computer, then i change something in a hardware, maybe change the motherboard. Does the machine id change and I have to obtain a new license? ( You say that there is a limited amount of times i can instal the render. What happens when i have to format my whole computer and instal the system from the beginning. Will my machine id change?)
Can I uninstall octane from an old computer and move it to a new one? do i have to obtain thle license one more time ? I understand that You dont want to let work multiple octanes on different computers on the same time but what happens when i want to move it from one to another?
I've bought octane last week but i dont have a new computer yet, can i wait with downloading the program till i will have a new machine ? will the license be lost after some time when i wont activate it ??
sorry for so many questions.

niedzwiedz

[radiance]

Hi,

I cannot give any specifics about the system, as that would make it easier for people to hack it.

but simply said, it's a combination of things, adding/removing GPUs does'nt affect it, formatting and reinstalling operating systems won't affect it.
changing the motherboard, CPU, memory and/or harddrives will.

Radiance

[andrian]

Please don't for HDD drives, I have several hot swappable HDD and I send HDD to other offices to complete the job, that will mean that I will not be able to use octane for weeks or even months (animation phase). And thats sux

[niedzwiedz]

hmmmm this can cause some problems.
lest assume this: I've installed octane and activated it. Then my hard drive burned, repalced it and reactivate, motherboard burned, replace, reactivate octane, and i had so bad luck with my hardware that i dont have any more reactivations possible with octane.
I know this is a very small possibility, but it is possible.
So i have done nothing wrong with octane but i cant use it due to the changing of my machine id. Do i have to buy the license one more then ?

[n1k]

I think radiance said that this licensing system is just temporary one. Like other octane features this should be more developed as time goes by.

[radiance]

hmmmm this can cause some problems.
lest assume this: I've installed octane and activated it. Then my hard drive burned, repalced it and reactivate, motherboard burned, replace, reactivate octane, and i had so bad luck with my hardware that i dont have any more reactivations possible with octane.
I know this is a very small possibility, but it is possible.
So i have done nothing wrong with octane but i cant use it due to the changing of my machine id. Do i have to buy the license one more then ?

Hi,

you're talking about hypothetical situations, it's not happened to you.
the license system work perfect, and it works just like %99 of all other commercial software out there.

if we would'nt do this, we would'nt sell any licenses and we would go out of business very soon, and no more octane.

Radiance