You can install W10 and roll back to W8.1 (it's saved for 30 days), just to have free W10 assigned to your computer, if you would like to upgrade in later time. Otherwise you will lose free upgrade. Once you roll back to W8.1, you can do what I done, install W10 as dual boot, and test it once in a ...

I sadly can't help you, but I would advise you to NOT await any replies in this thread, but to take this question to Autodesk directly (and report any reply you get back to us). We were told the "Maya/Max with Softimage" license would remain indefinitely for users "on" subscript...

I have a real quick question...does Maya 2017 work on Windows 8.1? There are a couple of hours left to go to Windows 10, which I was planning on not doing, and want to stay with Windows 8.1 for right now, but I just saw that Windows 8.1 is not listed on Maya 2017 system requirements. I thought that ...

Hello, As some have probably guessed from my recent posts, I am watching my perpetual license of Softimage like a hawk. :D Now that the "transition" is in more of a full effect, I had a question regarding the licenses we were issued for that transition period. This would regard the "M...

@Helli... Guess I rubbed you the wrong way, and its nice to see that others cannot have a different opinion than yours. I never once said that I didn't like the new Maya 2017. In fact the addition of Arnold is great, no complaints here. What I didn't care for was the abrupt change of no Mental Ray, ...

Everything I have setup in Softimage and in Maya is Mental Ray based. I assume Softimage will remain unchanged because it is EOL, and Mental Ray was with that. Moving forward with Maya though, very disappointing with the Mental Ray issue and a network license. This should have been a 2018 move, not ...

So, if you have a network license with extra nodes of MR, that just disappeared, right? Every time I look forward to a release from Autodesk, I always get disappointed somehow. They should have left an overlap with Mental Ray for at least a year...

Just wanted to follow-up with what I found out in case anyone was curious. I heard back from Autodesk, and they did verify that they changed the wording used a couple of months ago in the Autodesk account pages. Everything else was unchanged - same licensing.

It looks great, and it seems like they are shipping their actual production/movie shaders along too, which I believe was not the case with earlier versions...I could be mistaken though.

Does anyone else by chance have a perpetual license of "Maya with Softimage" and on Maintenance, that could please check their account to verify? It would be much appreciated.

Thank You.

Hi rray, thanks for the reply. Yeah, just a little over a month ago, it was literally written out as "Perpetual+Maintenance", and now it is just written as "Subscription". Everywhere I look on my account there is no longer any mention of the word "perpetual" - totally a...

Hi, I was just logged into my Autodesk account and was looking at some things, as I had a couple of support tickets being worked on. Just about a little over a month ago, under the section "Billing and Orders" (on the left nav-bar after logging in) it said my license was "Maya with So...

Completed.

@FXDude, I fully understand what you are saying and I pretty much have the same viewpoint, I was just referencing the first post (link) that people might think that the rental program is bad right now, but these transitions take time to be profitable - not for us - but for Autodesk. Obviously, if th...

I saw that too, but I wouldn't look into it that much yet, as that is most likely expected. As you can see, 2017 Q1 is going to be far less of a drop. I expect most people (whom are not on classic Maintenance Subscription) are going to use their latest perpetual version as long as possible. Once the...

You and your team did a really great job! Nice work and thank you for the info too.