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I've heard that Blender runs a lot smoother under Linux than it does under Windows. So I thought that I'd setup my PC with a dual boot. Linux for when I want to do some serious blending and Windows 7 when I want to do other stuff. I would, preferably, want to use Octane from both boots. Would this be possible or would I need to purchase another licence. If it is the latter then I think that my plan is doomed before it starts.

Cheers

You can use the same license under Windows and Linux if you make a dual boot system.

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Roeland

I think you need to transfer the Octane licence like they were different machines by deactivating from the current O/S via the customer area on the homepage and then boot into the other O/S and activate for that by revisiting the customer area, or at least that's what I 've always done.

So the answer is no? I know that I could transfer the licence between boots but that could become tedious. If I can only use one system then I will stick with Win7. It is MS's best OS to date for for once actually works. If I swapped to Linux then I'd have to learn it all from scratch. I've tinkered with Linux but nothing more than that.

Anyone got a definitive answer to this?

roeland gave you an answer - he is octaneRender team - so figure it out yourself who is right..
and my guess is that it should work if octane uses machine ID to generate the code for verification, in any case it is not difficult to reactivate the software

At the moment Blender on Windows is playing up like a petulant child. Mind you I have maxed out my 16GB ram

How did you max out 16 gigs of RAM?
I'm running Blender on Win 7 64 and havent had any problems. What kind of problems are you having?

My model is getting rather large. I maxed out the ram when I was separating 10,000+ faces into individual objects. It is a long story but I need to separate them and then recombine them.

My reason for wanting to change to using Linux is that I have heard that it is a lot smoother running Blender under Linux than it is under windows. I have always found blender to get quite clunky when the number of objects in a model gets above a certain level. So much so that at times modelling becomes quite a chore. The solution that I am using at the moment is spreading the model over many layers in order to be able to turn off bits of the model when they are not being worked on. If blender really is a lot smoother on Linux then I was hoping to not have to do that.

You can have Octane activated on both Windows and Linux. Since you are working on the same computer, you don't need to deactivate and reactivate all the time.

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Roeland