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title: "Portable Installation"
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This page provides information about the portable installation of V-Ray for Cinema 4D. Please do not use multiple V-Ray installation methods at the same time. If you plan on creating a Portable V-Ray installation for Cinema 4D, make sure you have uninstalled any other V-Ray version for Cinema 4D.  Overview The V-Ray installer can be unpacked and used as a portable version. Creating a Portable Installation provides several advantages over the regular installer: The Portable installation allows for setting a custom environment when starting each Cinema 4D instance. The Portable installation can be used to run V-Ray for Cinema 4D from any location or even a network drive. That way, multiple users can start Cinema 4D, along with V-Ray, without the need to run local installations. Upgrading a Portable installation is a lot easier, as you don't need to run the installer on every user's computer. The Portable installation allows for quick switching between different V-Ray versions without reinstalling it. Note that Chaos Cosmos is not included in the V-Ray for Cinema 4D Portable installation file. You can separately  download  and install Chaos Cosmos. To use the Chaos Unified Login (a single login into whichever Chaos application grants access to all Chaos applications) with V-Ray portable installation,  download  and install separately.  When using V-Ray from a Portable installation, the Chaos legal agreements need to be accepted to start a render. A pop-up window will prompt you to accept the agrements the first time you start a render. Batch rendering is an exception to this. Another pop-up window allows you to select your telemetry preferences. These can be changed from within the Cinema Preferences.  See the  Chaos Telemetry  page for more information.   Click on the images to view them in full size If you are using a V-Ray version older than V-Ray 6, update 1, please refer to the  Installation from zip guide , as the Portable Installation is not available for those V-Ray versions. Required Steps to Run V-Ray To create a Portable installation, you need to: Download V-Ray. Unpack the installation file. See the  Unpack the installation file  section of this page for more information. Download and install a Chaos License. Visit the  Installing the License Server  page to find out how. Run Cinema 4D. Unpacking the installation file Unpack the installation into a suitable location, which you can later use to run V-Ray on any computer. Here is a detailed step-by-step guide: