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Realms Work multiple computers

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joepacelli

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If I purchase Realms Work can I use it on my home PC and also on my laptop?
I mainly work on my PC while at home, but when I game I use my laptop since we can either game at my place or at another players home.

Also, It's been 7 years since I've gotten a new PC and I'm looking to build a new PC. So if I install Realms Work on this PC and then in the next month after I build a new PC can I install it onto my new PC?

Thanks
Joe
 
Yes this will all work.

I work on my PC but run games on the laptop. I have changed laptop and PCs a few times this year and it works perfectly. The restriction is you can only log in on one machine at a time. The login will associate itself to the windows login so you can only use one Realm Works login per Windows login.

You will need the cloud to migrate your data from the PC to the laptop (which we don't currently pay for as subscriptions are on hold until the launch of the content market) just consider the ongoing cost once the time does start ticking again. You make the changes on one machine. Sync the changes up to the cloud. Log off and move to the other machine. Log on and sync the changes down from the cloud. Repeat this process whenever you change machines.
 
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Everything is smooth as long as you actually do the syncing. Forgetting to sync led me to issues a few times but there are warning messages implemented now to stop that occurring.
 
I've been doing this on a couple of different desktops and laptops for 2 years now. It works smoothly as long as you always sync when you finish editing or finish a session. I got into a real mess once when I didn't.
 
I run RW on 3 machines... my main desktop, my laptop and my 'one release back machine. I only sync the third one right before doing an update on the other two. Never had an issue.
 
I think I have it on three machines right now. Only one can be active at a time of course. As everybody else has mentioned, always sync after you finish doing anything and then do a sync when you open up RW on a different machine.
 
I too use it on three different machines. My main desktop where I run my online games from, my laptop where I build things around the house and where I run home games from, and also on my Surface where I can build things when inspiration strikes me on the go. Just sync when you're done with any of them and everything works wonderfully.
 
Ackron said:
also on my Surface where I can build things when inspiration strikes me on the go. Just sync when you're done with any of them and everything works wonderfully.
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How does RW run on your Surface? I've been looking for a windows tablet for a while and the high price of the Surface has put me off till I see one in use and everyone I know has iPads.
 
I actually use it on a little 10" Asus mini-transformer tablet. It works well for me and what I use it for, but none of my realms so far are very large so YMMV.

It likely also helps that I don't have a ton of other software loaded on it.
 
kbs666 said:
How does RW run on your Surface? I've been looking for a windows tablet for a while and the high price of the Surface has put me off till I see one in use and everyone I know has iPads.
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It runs better on here than it does on my ASUS gaming laptop, actually. The solid state memory on the Surface easily outperforms the mechanical disk on my laptop. I think RW is more bound by disk speeds than processor and memory given it's design. I can't recommend the Surface highly enough for RW, or just general use.
 
kbs666 said:
How does RW run on your Surface? I've been looking for a windows tablet for a while and the high price of the Surface has put me off till I see one in use and everyone I know has iPads.
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I run RW on an i5 Surface Pro 3 and have had zero issues. I am a huge fan of the Surface. In use it primarily for tabletop RPG stuff: HeroLab, RW, Fractal Mapped, Roll20, MS Office.
 
It's also perfectly easy to save a backup database as a file, then use any means you like to get the file to a second computer, where you restore the database. It's a little more complex than syncing, but sometimes this forum forgets that not everyone paid for cloud service ;)
 
Turan said:
It's also perfectly easy to save a backup database as a file, then use any means you like to get the file to a second computer, where you restore the database. It's a little more complex than syncing, but sometimes this forum forgets that not everyone paid for cloud service ;)
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True, but those who got in on the kickstarter and got cloud service, paid upfront for it. :)
 
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I run RW on the following systems:

Main desktop:
i5 Skylake / 16GB Ram / SATA SSD

Gamer Lappy
i7 Ivy Bridge / 16GB Ram / SATA SSD

Surface Pro 3
i5 version / 4GB Ram / NVMe SSD

Surface Pro 4 (work)
i5 version / 8GB Ram / NVMe SSD

It runs fantastic on all systems. Having at least an SATA SSD as stated by people does majorly impact performance. The difference in Ram for me has not seemed to make a difference.

Oddly enough it runs slower on my work SP4, however that's more indicative of the crap running on then its own performance. However the SP4 is slower than the SP3 CPU wise, just runs at half the power, giving stellar battery life for such a powerful system.

RW will run on an aging system, but do yourself a favor and add an SSD. The single biggest performance upgrade there is for your PC is an SSD. Even on an older SATA3 based system, adding a value line SSD offers unreal gains. Do not worry about paying for NVMe (if your Mobo has the connector), though faster, reality is the difference between a convention drive vs SATA SSD is the biggest gain and better to put more money into size than the less gains with NVMe.

Also you can buy a budget CPU, faster and less cores over slower more cores, but again stock a SSD in there.
 
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I can absolutely vouch that the ssd will improve your a Realm Works experience. Its like a whole new pc.
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This. I reported a while back that I was having rather significant performance issues on my laptop. When I got a new laptop with an SSD I've had excellent performance. I liked it so much I went out and got an SSD for my home desktop and went through all the hassle of installing Windows on the new drive just to get the performance boost.
 
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