yurigagarin Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) hi, first post here. i was wondering if anyone had encountered the same problem as me` online activation of dcs: black shark wont work. it tells me everything is fine and uses up an activation but the next screen tells me an internal error occurred. i also tried getting an activation code from starforce. twice but when i enter it i just get another error . i have noticed that the hardware id keeps changing which seems odd. i would have thought that it would be static unless something was changed ive emailed activation@lockon.ru but as its 1.jan i dont expect to get a quick reply. can anyone help?. thanks Edited January 1, 2009 by yurigagarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airway Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Hello yuri and welcome to the forum. Sadly I can't help you but just wanted to inform you that there is limited support during new year holiday. Here's the official note: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36028 But as they said, they will get back to you a.s.a.p. Maybe another forum member can help you meanwhile. Hardware ID change is really odd. Maybe you can provide us some information about your used hardware and OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurigagarin Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 thanks for the reply my machine is a stock dell dimension amd dual core 2gb ram ati radeon 256 mb vid card win xp ive installed the game to a non default d:\ drive folder with an admin logon as i mentioned when the manual activation fails and you hit retry, a completely different hardware id comes up. its strange. ive never had any installation issues with other sims and run il2 fsx lomac without issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airway Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Jus an idea: Is something maybe overclocked on your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurigagarin Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Jus an idea: Is something maybe overclocked on your computer? no, its never been messed with, although it does have a lot of apps and games on it. ive never had any previous issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosties Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Hello! My brother had the same problem on his XP machine! Then we tried and installed it on his laptop wich is running Vista and there it worked! Dunno if there is something in XP missin to run StarForce or what. Vista works, Not xp [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Vincere Est Totum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurigagarin Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 update - alexander from dcs got back to me promptly on friday. he issued me a new serial and has passed on my problem to starforce and has said they should contact me within 3 days. ill update this thread if i get a solution as it cant be that rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurigagarin Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 update - starforce never contacted me so i emailed them directly. after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing and getting me to delete a registry key, the issue was passed on to their developers. that was on the sixth . yesterday (12th) i emailed them for an update and got a reply that it would be fixed soon. this is getting very frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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