Thread: Vista / Windows 7

i run 64 vista ,with no problems, admin, or general users... happy vista bunny.

Hi there,
I bought a license for the BTB software a few weeks back but I have been having trouble activating it. Sometimes the lock thing will come up. And sometimes it won’t. I have downloaded my specific license for this computer-nothing changed since pc info sent. The license is in the BTB root folder in program files_ OS (C/Program Files/BobsTrackBuilder). That the right place isn’t it? Please help ASAP as I need to continue with my track.

Thankyou,
Mitch

I have Vista 32bit and have similar problem. If license expired message pop up i do system restart and BTB working again

It's not working for me at all, just keep getting this error message everytime I try and run the shortcut. I don't even have good enough specifications on my PC to play RBR in good quality; the graphics often jitters and goes blury when racing. So I'm left here drooling over seeing everyone create these nice tracks. I'm stuck with playing the PS2 RBR.

I feel like a dope asking this, but I’m frustrated :dont-know:
I’ve been using BTB for a while and have my license renewal on a four month cycle.
I always copy the new License file into the BTB main directory, and delete the old file, but the program continues to come up with the License Expired window.

The last time I renewed, it did this, but the problem cleared itself after a few reboot cycles.
But this time it isn't clearing.

This should just be a simple update, system was running BTB fine until old license expired.

Wonder what I’m doing wrong?
Should I be making a new Hardware.txt file each time?
I have just been using the old one.

New Dell PC, no hardware changes since new.
Windows Vista, I always run programs as Administrator, and BTB has worked without issues up to now.
I don’t mess with the system time & date.

I'm was right in the middle of making a track, guess I'll have a little break.

Any suggestion appreciated :question:

Well i posted a while ago here about my licence problems. I bought BTB Pro and all was well. Then one day when i tried to open BTB and the licence trial thing came up. A few days later BTB was fine again and i then continued to build my track. Then this morning literally 10 hours after closing the program the licence problem occured again. it is very weird how the licence will decide when to work and when to not. I am on Vista (with plenty of time on my licence). Licence is installed in BTB program files. Please help becasue I paid 100NZD for the product only to find it will only work some days. I am getting very frustrated as I was making good progress last night and now everything is on hold until it decides to work. Has this every happened to anyone else? Any suggestions?

Cheers heaps,
Mitch.

Originally Posted by Mitch Keys

Well i posted a while ago here about my licence problems. I bought BTB Pro and all was well. Then one day when i tried to open BTB and the licence trial thing came up. A few days later BTB was fine again and i then continued to build my track. Then this morning literally 10 hours after closing the program the licence problem occured again. it is very weird how the licence will decide when to work and when to not. I am on Vista (with plenty of time on my licence). Licence is installed in BTB program files. Please help becasue I paid 100NZD for the product only to find it will only work some days. I am getting very frustrated as I was making good progress last night and now everything is on hold until it decides to work. Has this every happened to anyone else? Any suggestions?

Cheers heaps,
Mitch.

If you try run BTB in Administrator mode?

Originally Posted by Mitch Keys

Well i posted a while ago here about my licence problems. I bought BTB Pro and all was well. Then one day when i tried to open BTB and the licence trial thing came up. A few days later BTB was fine again and i then continued to build my track. Then this morning literally 10 hours after closing the program the licence problem occured again. it is very weird how the licence will decide when to work and when to not. I am on Vista (with plenty of time on my licence). Licence is installed in BTB program files. Please help becasue I paid 100NZD for the product only to find it will only work some days. I am getting very frustrated as I was making good progress last night and now everything is on hold until it decides to work. Has this every happened to anyone else? Any suggestions?

Cheers heaps,
Mitch.

If you keep track of your HardwareID.txt files, like I did, you will probably see your system ID is changing randomly.
Unfortunately, how the security protections works isn’t going to be solved by us talking about it.
And beyond warning others of this possible problem with Vista, we probably shouldn’t discuss the copy protection any further in an open forum.

In fairness to Brendon, we were warned that Vista was not supported.

I have an older system running XP I could reload mine to, it’s to bad we couldn’t get our License’s reset before the 3, 4 or 12 months we have to wait.