My Win 10 desktop machine can’t be updated to Win 11 but it’s taking me longer than I anticipated to source a suitable replacement. Meanwhile I have a Win 11 laptop I can use.
I hope that the laptop will cope with PL9, but its weakness is that the RTX 4050 GPU in it only has 6GB VRAM so it will be touch and go.
In an ideal world I’d like to first trial PL9 on the laptop but then, as soon as I get a Win 11 desktop machine I’d like to also trail PL9 on that device. I don’t think the trial version will let me do that though, will it? I’ll only get one installation won’t I?
I was suggested recently, by DxO support themselves, that if I needed more trial period I could install the software on a different computer and use it there.
As @mwsilvers suggests, it is possible you’ll also have to use a different email address as well. But I have a suspicion you won’t.
Due to personal experience on my Macs I can say that a trial can be installed on two different computers. Adding another trial activation key using a different email address does not help though: DxO stores a user ID somewhere on your computer and that ID is checked against the license server in addition to some hardware related property.
You might find a way with a second email address, but I suppose that you need to test with a PC that had no contact with DxO before and which is kept offline, once the trial period has started.
Interesting. On Mac, the second trial usually started with the full number of days…only to adopt the lower number of the other installation not later than the next start of PL9.
I’ve used several addresses…and now, DxO has to clean up things due to those addresses having conflicts with whatever other information they store.
I have to apologize, I’m in a similar situation to the OP and I’ve read this thread several times, but I still don’t know how to proceed. I’m trialing PLv9 on my laptop running Win11 and having specs close to the PLv9 minimum. Its speed would be tolerable for a few images in a pinch, but now I’m concerned that, while it will be faster than my laptop, it will be too slow to process multiple images on my desktop (also Win11) even though its specs are well above minimum and in some categories at or above the recommended. So, before I commit to PLv9, I’d like to trial it on my desktop, as well.
I see recommendations here for Windows, and Macs. Some recommending the use of 2 separate email addresses and others saying that 2 email addresses won’t help. But I can’t see that the guidance has clarified into clear cut instructions on the steps needed to install and run PLv9 trials on 2 different Windows computers. Could I impose on you to do that for me? Thanks.
As far as I can tell, the trial is tied to the computer’s hardware, not the user’s account / email address.
The only official instruction I have regarding this was a support message I received from DxO themselves in which they said, if I want to “extend” my trial I can install PL on a different computer. They did not tell me that I needed to use a separate email address.
That being said if you want to guarantee that they won’t cross check your account with the new computer, you’d be safest to just use an alternate email address to get a new trial code. If you do have another email address you can use, you may as well do this – there’s nothing to lose.
So I should just treat the 2 computers as if they were owned/operated by separate individuals with different email addresses and request separate trials (one of which has started). Thanks.