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Hello everyone,

This should be a simple answer, but I'm struggling to get the right information.

What licence do I need to be able to render on 2 machines at the same time i.e. work on my desktop and render a different animation on my laptop?

Render Nodes and Network Rendering have been mentioned, but I don't understand what they are.

To clarify: I don't want to farm our render tasks to my laptop from my desktop; I need it to be able to render completely different things at the same time... a separate instance of Blender/Standalone, I guess.

Does this mean I need a 2nd licence, or should I be able to do this with a single licence that covers 2 machines?

Thanks in advance.

for my understanding, you need two licences to render on two different PC's at the same time.

For example, 2x OctaneRender® Studio Subscriptions STUDIO

... but i m not shure

I myself use a Enterprise RNDR Version where i can easily swititch from my PC Pool (4) to use the licence at one of this PCs. But never tried to use the licence at two PC at the same time

I'm pretty sure that the licensing is just about the number of GPUs you want to use. The free license allows one, the studio allows two, and the enterprise license allows 20. On the studio license you should be able to use two machines with one GPU each.

Thanks, guys.

Grimm - this is what I thought.

I used to be able to render on both machines at the same time. I renewed my Enterprise licence in September, and I can't do that anymore.

I just can't work out what I used to have, and why I don't have it now.

You might want to make sure that you have the same version installed on all of the machines. If you have different versions, they will not talk with each other. It's similar with having different versions between the server and the Blender plugin.

grimm wrote:I'm pretty sure that the licensing is just about the number of GPUs you want to use. The free license allows one, the studio allows two, and the enterprise license allows 20. On the studio license you should be able to use two machines with one GPU each.

I don't think that's correct. The two GPUs must be on the same PC and the same Blender/Server.