MIG-21 1.5.1 ACTIVATION

[cichlidfan]

Yes, i read it. And this would be the third time i sent an email to that address and i get no answer.

 

OK, sorry. Out of curiosity how long ago did you send your first one?

[splash]

October 3rd.

[Cobra847]

October 3rd.

 

I only have that one from you (no two others) and it was missed in Oct.

Responded.

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

Please remove this copy protection

 

I'd doubt that's up to LNS. ED uses it for all of DCSW.

[BlackLion213]

I have a new activation problem. The prompt appears to reactivate the module, but it gives and error report and states that I can only run one instance of the activation software...but there is only one instance running.

 

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the module, plus restarted the software several times.

 

Anything else I can do, this started after I reverted back to 1.5.0 to avoid all of these bugs. For me, 1.5.0 is running very well with the MiG-21 and there is little incentive to upgrade.

 

-Nick

[Snacko]

I had a similar issue. In Win 10 if you don't see the DCS program in the Task Manager at the top under 'Apps', look down through the 'Background Processes' for it. If found end Task on it.

 

I could not re-activate the Mig21. It locked up DCS and the game would not load anymore. So, I ran the protect program for it, and then first Deactivate it. Then activate it again.

 

DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\MIG-21bis\bin\pcnsl.exe

[splash]

I only have that one from you (no two others) and it was missed in Oct.

Responded.

 

I sent you two e-mails in October and I didn't send you the third one because the module worked by applying the registry fix. No problem I suppose you have lots of emails.

 

But today, everytime I open 1.5 and later 1.2.16, I get the Starforce window and I have to reactivate. If later I open 1.5, I get the Starforce window again, I reactivate but the window is freeze. I have to kill the DCS task and registry is full of entries like those ones. Yesterday I had 7 activations and now I have 3 or 4, I don't remember:

 

Edited November 8, 2015 by splash

[LUPO1606688396]

Another activatione gone with the today's patch. 7 left...

And the activation crashed!

 

Thanks for trying to fix this asap.

Regards

Stefano

LUPO

[Vectury]

That's good customer support Cobra! I hope you guys can fix this quick though! Even if its just for your workload's sake :D

[BlackLion213]

I had a similar issue. In Win 10 if you don't see the DCS program in the Task Manager at the top under 'Apps', look down through the 'Background Processes' for it. If found end Task on it.

 

I could not re-activate the Mig21. It locked up DCS and the game would not load anymore. So, I ran the protect program for it, and then first Deactivate it. Then activate it again.

 

DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\MIG-21bis\bin\pcnsl.exe

 

Tried that, couldn't find it active anywhere in the processes. I figure it had to do with the fact that I reactivated the MiG-21 for DCS 1.5.1 and it wouldn't let me go back to 1.5.0.

 

I decided to go back to 1.5.1 and the MiG-21 works fine. :)

 

It is a bit more stuttery around airfields (which LNS knows about), but otherwise working fine.

 

I decided that DCS with MiG-21 is better than DCS without funky trees. ;) I figure that all of this will be fixed relatively soon, I'll spend a bit more time flying over water.

 

-Nick

Edited November 9, 2015 by BlackLion213

[Capt_Haddock]

Thanks for offering to help Cobra!

Loosing activations is becoming a routine with new updates coming fast and close but I'm sure it's far more painful to you guys. Best luck fixing it!

[Captain Midnight]

I HATE Starforce. It CONSTANTLY asks for new activation even though I never change anything on my machine. Most paranoid copy protection I've ever seen!

[mrmach]

I'm already sick of this thing, I only have it installed at my desktop and laptop, but only 4 activations left...:dunno:

Edited November 9, 2015 by mrmach

[Snacko]

Hmm.. I didn't know that you were allowed to install a license on more than one computer?

[TAW_Impalor]

Mig-21 reactivations

 

After the latest open beta update, Mig-21 said my system changed significantly and asked to reactivate. I am now down to 7, although never changed anything since I bought Mig-21. Not even Windows updates... With this speed I will soon have to buy it again.

[BaconSarnie]

Meh, Im also down to 7 activations after the latest patch making me lose 2

Im not worried however, if it happens again though and I get lower than say 5 I will email asking for it to be rectified.

[howie87]

Yeah, I had the same thing happen after updating to the latest beta. Wrong forum though. The MiG-21 is by Leatherneck, not Belsimtek.

[BIGNEWY]

merged :)

[DragonShadow]

I've uninstalled the MiG-21 Bis from my beta installation for the moment while this is being looked into. I'll just fly some other aircraft in the meanwhile, it is beta after all.. While an inconvenience, it should hopefully at least mean no wasted activation and no need to add to the workload by requesting a new set once the bug is fixed?

Edited November 9, 2015 by DragonShadow

[Snacko]

Well, Cobra said that we will probably lose another activation in the next patch as well.

 

I only have 4 left, but may as well wait to send the email until I have 1 left or this is fixed. They have promised to make this right either way..

[DarkFire]

Activation consumption

 

After installing the latest patch, when I started DCS World it decided that I'd significantly changed the setup of my PC and required a re-activation but only for the MiG-21 module. Other than having installed the latest patch I'd changed nothing.

 

This doesn't necessarily concern me as I still have 8 activations remaining, but it could become an issue as further patches are published.

 

Is there an official ED policy with regards to beta patches using activations?

 

Edited to add: Ah, this has been reported elsewhere, my bad, please ignore.

[Conroy]

Same here, lost one activation with the last (beta) update.

[mrmach]

Hmm.. I didn't know that you were allowed to install a license on more than one computer?

Now you know :D

 

By the way I finaly managed to install it, the way; first use the reg tool and after, delete local machine software leatherneck simulations folder (I recommend to export the key as backup) with REGEDIT.exe ...and when it asks to ,insert the serial again...

(done it twice, one for beta and after for current versión 1.2.16 that mean 2 activations left...I think time to send this e-mail to Cobra)

Edited November 10, 2015 by mrmach

[diceman]

After the latest open beta update, Mig-21 said my system changed significantly and asked to reactivate. I am now down to 7, although never changed anything since I bought Mig-21. Not even Windows updates... With this speed I will soon have to buy it again.

 

I just had it do the exact same thing to me, after I just updated to the newest version of 'OpenBeta'. Why would we get hit with a activation after an update?

[cichlidfan]

Hmm.. I didn't know that you were allowed to install a license on more than one computer?

 

You can, though I would imagine you will eat a lot of activations during some updates.

 

The reason being, my supposition here, that when you install it on Computer B, it now sees your key tied to a new hardware configuration from Computer A so you use an activation. Now, when you go to update Computer A, it sees an new hardware configuration (compared to when the last activation was performed, so you use another activation. Attempt to update Computer B and the same scenario ensues. Rinse. Repeat.

 

I am fairly certain that Starforce doesn't keep track of previous hardware configurations beyond the most recent activation platform.