Greymom posted at 8:30AM Fri, 25 January 2019 - #4341337

gillbrooks posted at 12:45PM Thu, 06 December 2018 - #4341322

Why the need for alternatives? I'm using 2015 Infinite and had already decided to stop there as the upgrades, to me seemed pointless. Mostly new features that I don't need or use. Just because it's now subscription only doesn't mean that you can't continue to create in your current version. As they have stated, it's yours, you own it - the licence to use it at very least. The only possible problem may occur if at some future point, your new OS won't support it. Although for me, I would like to continue using Win 8.1 untill I falls off me perch.

The whole point being, why change just because you can't get the shiny, new "latest" version? If it works, why change ??

I agree, I decided to set a couple of machines up for hardware dual boot (Win 7/Win 10 with two physical drives so I just swap plugs), and others Win7 only (Win 10 compatibility a bit iffy). Hoping to keep VUE 2015, Plant Factory, Carrara, and probably Bryce, running on Win 7 (on machines built from cheap surplus server parts) for years to come. When I am running Win7 there will be no connection to the internet for those machines. The money for hardware was already spent, and I had extra copies of Win7, so why not?

In the meantime, I will see what develops.

2015 "works" in Win 10. I put works in parenthesis due to the bug mentioned in my previous post. Pretty sure i had the same bug with Win 7,although it's possible I didn't buy 2015 until after I upgraded to 10. In any case, according to E-on, 2015 is compatible with 10.