octane plug-in activation

Vaesark

Hello, I'm having a problem with the octane plug-in, I can't find how to activate it (or any other plug-in), and the search for guides or instructions lead me to dead links and unrelated information, any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the problem:

I recently changed my old card, a 1080ti for a RTX3070. I've installed the latest drivers:466.47 and opened carrara to see if it works, the scene loaded but all the shaders using octane where not loading in the 3D view, I opened the octane plugin and try to render but nothing happens. I checked to see if octane recognizes the new card, it did but it would not let me check "active". I assumed that I needed to update octane and it's carrara plug in. These are the versions that I installed:

Octane Render enterprise standalone: 2020.2.3
Octane Render enterprise render node: 2020.2.3
Octane enterprise for carrara: 2020.1

I think these are the latest ones, correct?

Problem is, after installing them, for some reason carrara restored it's default configuration, not a problem on itself. But now the plug-in is nowhere to be found. The octane render options no longer appear on the "edit" menu in carrara and I can't find a way to activate the plug-in, did I miss some step? how do I enable the plug in again?

- Win 10
- 32 gb ram
- RTX 3070
- Nvidia driver: 466.47
- Carrara version 8.5.1 pro build 19
- OctaneRender for Carrara: 2020.1

update: seems like I fixed it but now my license won't work, but that's a problem for octane most likely. Nothing to do here anymore but I don't see any option to delete the post, sorry about that. 

Chris Fox Art

Have you tried to deactivate and activate your license manually from octane site or asked the Support there?