How to deactivate?

[SharpeXB]

The instructions for installing 1.2.1 says to deactivate your current product.

How is this done?

[Grizzly1606688174]

What is this!!... I installed it earlier and it said do NOT deactivate.. Great stuff.. :S Im done with this game....

 

To answer your question I think you need to reinstall 1.2.0 to deactivate..

[fangav]

here.

http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?p=1493625

 

 

The instructions for installing 1.2.1 says to deactivate your current product.

How is this done?

[Costa]

Press left shitf while clicking on multiplayer exe it will open the activate deactivate page.

 

Ive had some hardware issues so i formated pc a lot past few weeks now i have 2 activations left.

 

Anyone knows how to have 9 activations without having to buy the game again,

 

 

Btw i have A-10 throught steam,

[SharpeXB]

Press left shitf while clicking on multiplayer exe it will open the activate deactivate page.

 

Ive had some hardware issues so i formated pc a lot past few weeks now i have 2 activations left.

 

Anyone knows how to have 9 activations without having to buy the game again,

 

 

Btw i have A-10 throught steam,

sorry, couldn't understand what that all means

left shift +f while clicking on an .exe file?

Is there an easier way?

[SharpeXB]

There's a file called

Program Files/Eagle Dynamics/DCS World/bin

dcs_protect (type: application)

Is that it?

[Costa]

sorry, couldn't understand what that all means

left shift +f while clicking on an .exe file?

Is there an easier way?

 

your dcs wolrd multiplayer icon "the green one " click that to go play on multiplayer and before that keep left shift key pressed and open multiplaayer dcs

[EtherealN]

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/faq/activate/

[Slap_Chop]

To force activation dialogue to appear hold down Shift button on keyboard and then launch multiplayer game shortcut.

 

There are three choices in the initial dialogue:There are three choices in the initial dialogue:

 

Automatic activation.

 

Manual activation. If there is no Internet

 

Deactivation

[Stonehouse]

Ok I came in part way through this and unfortunately didn't see the new instructions to deactivate the products I own (CA, A10, P51, BS2 upgrade) and while I've uninstalled everything as always before putting in a new version of DCS it seems like an uninstall doesn't automatically deactivate a license but does somehow remove it. So the first I knew something was wrong was when reinstalling CA I do the activation and notice only 8 left. I then did some reading here and tried the various methods of deactivation before activating the next module but get told there is no license for deactivation and going to the starforce website and entering the two serials I see in the activation dialog I get an error that the hardware code I entered was for activation not deactivation. So at present it seems I'm going to lose 1 activation on every product I install. Can anyone make any suggestions around this problem as I don't think I'll get them back in a months time.

 

Thanks,

Stonehouse

[cichlidfan]

You should be able to re-install v1.2.0 World and modules that you want to deactivate. They should come up already activated. Then go through the deactivation process.

[ENO]

If this is any indication of the status of the patch- I'm going back to PAC man. Activate- deactivate... Do(n't)

 

I mean I don't care to have 10 activations and frankly I'm sure 8 is 9 more than I'd need considering I had to buy another copy to host a fricken server for them (so now I have 20 activations)... But if the guys who designed it aren't even sure how it's going to work then ummmm... Wut?

[Slap_Chop]

Well............ When you hit SHIFT and Start DCS World Multiplayer it

will bring up the activation screen for the 1st module you installed. I believe in my case it was A10 C (I Have A10 BS2 and P51).

 

It let me deactivate the A10 module and that was it. (You can see what module you're working with up on the top left of the activation window)

 

So I tried this twice but it only seemed to show the A10 module to deactivate. So I uninstalled 1.2.0 and went ahead and installed 1.2.1 and then the 3 new modules. (A10 BS2 and P51.)

 

It then asked to activate each module after I tried to run a mission in one of them and it left me with 9 activations in the A10 module (which I had deactivated before uninstalling ) but only 8 activations for BS2 and P51. So it looks like I lost 1 activation in the two modules I couldn't deactivate.

 

Did I do something wrong. I don't know but the process isn't so straight forward with modules being inside World as opposed to being separate as they were before DCS world. If you get my drift.

[Stonehouse]

Good idea Cichlidfan but unfortunately I can't see v1.2.0 of World on the DCS site anymore and also unfortunately I cleaned up the downloads of the old versions to make more room for the new ones.

 

Seems like I may just have to live with losing 1 activation all around although perhaps as seem to recall they did once before they'll award one activation back to anyone with less than the full number to make up for the snafu. Thanks for the help in anycase.

 

Cheers,

Stonehouse

[BigfootMSR]

Have no fear. After you have used your last activation, you will get another activation after 30 days automatically. You will not have to worry about needing to buy the game again after you run out.

 

you can deactivate your modules by going to your dcs world > mods> aircrafts folder. Inside each of those folders is a folder called bin. Inside of that, you will find a file named "Modulename_Protect. If you double click on it, it will pop a window where you can deactivate your product.

 

When you first install the game, you start off with 10 deactivations, and 10 activations. After your last activation is used, you will automatically gain another activation after 30days.

[SharpeXB]

To force activation dialogue to appear hold down Shift button on keyboard and then launch multiplayer game shortcut.

This only launched the game for me, it didn't bring up a box

I'm using Windows 7 64-bit

 

I launched the box using the method below

I think it said something about this way only working if you had deactivated it before

Edited October 2, 2012 by SharpeXB

[SharpeXB]

Have no fear. After you have used your last activation, you will get another activation after 30 days automatically. You will not have to worry about needing to buy the game again after you run out.

 

you can deactivate your modules by going to your dcs world > mods> aircrafts folder. Inside each of those folders is a folder called bin. Inside of that, you will find a file named "Modulename_Protect. If you double click on it, it will pop a window where you can deactivate your product.

 

When you first install the game, you start off with 10 deactivations, and 10 activations. After your last activation is used, you will automatically gain another activation after 30days.

I found the A-10 file at

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircrafts\A-10C\bin\x86_64

a10_protect

yes, clicking this brought up the box

 

Do I need to deactivate DCS World too? or just the A-10 (it's the only one I own)

In this folder is dcs_protect

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin

but there is no option to deactivate when I bring up that box

[Slap_Chop]

I found the A-10 file at

Do I need to deactivate DCS World too? or just the A-10 (it's the only one I own)

x

 

 

 

 

DCS world is a Free Program that includes the Su-25 . So it is never activated with a serial number and never has to be Deactivated. Only the Add on planes do.

 

 

I wish I'd of known about the protect.exe program in the module directories heh. No biggy tho one activation gone. (We are brave and couragous sim pilots) ish

Edited October 2, 2012 by Slap_Chop