I don't know who to blame, the pirates, or the companies. Probably both, but for the life of me, I cannot get my LEGIT copy of 3DSMax to work.

My friend is in college and was going for computer science for video games. He went a totally different direction, and instead became an aqua marine veteranarian or something like that. Anyway, I benifit because he gives me his unopened 3DSMax V 7 [WITH RAGDOLLS AND HAVOK 2 BUILT IN OMG] for free

I plug the baby in a few months ago, play with it without registering it, etc etc. I go on a few trips that last a couple months. My free time expires. That SHOULD be ok, since I have a valid sereal and code, right?

I open the program and get the first dialogue attached. Cool, I click the button, and I get the second dialogue.

A blank screen with 2 bullets. W. T. F.

descreet hasn't answered my e-mail I sent to months ago, and just today I remembered I had it on my computer but didn't remember why I wasn't using it. Then this crap happened again.

I OWN THE GODAMN SOFTWARE. IT'S SITTING IN FRONT OF ME. I CAN SEE IT. IT'S ON MY COMPUTER. WHY, THEN, CAN I NOT USE IT!?

Seriously, I understand that companies don't want to lose money. I understand that people don't want to pay for games.

I get that.

But there's this 1 person who used to be the most important person in the market.

The godamn consumer.

WHY does the consumer, the one person that everything SHOULD work to benifit, loses in this situation? Why does the CONSUMER have to take cautions to counter NON consumers!? Maybe I'm not thinking realistically, but I do know what's real: The box sitting in front of my godamn face. That's as real as it gets.

JediKirby

Delete (including registry) and reinstall?

Couldn't it be that there's just a bug in the program? Call, don't email, the company. It must not be that big of deal since you really haven't taken any active steps to fix the issue.

Yeah, the easiest most obvious routes are usually the best. Although many programs leave some sort of trace to detour people from reusing the free trial period.

What do you mean by "includin registry?" I've uninstalled once already.

Oh, and I could cal discreet, but I've avoided calling companies for years. YEARS. I hate it. But I'm pissed off enough that the computer-illiterate foreign woman on the other line might stop being a retard and do what I ask her.

That's probably harsh, but no one can say that it isn't absolutelly true.

Uninstall, clean registry, reinstall. Looks like a program bug to me, not a validation/registration issue.

Calm down, too

Edit: By 'clean registry' we mean run regedit & delete the program keys for 3dsm.

Regedit... that's a dangerous place. I've never really dabbled in it. Is it straitforeward enough to where I won't delete something important?

JediKirby

Try reinstalling without messing with the registry first. If you really have to do it, it kinda looks like Windows Explorer, so you should be fine if you are careful.

You could just pirate it. Probably be easier :p

But yeah, call discreet, that'd be your best bet.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]You could just pirate it. Probably be easier :p[/QUOTE]

That's what I mean, it's simply ironic that pirating it would be easier.

Actually, it wouldn't since I can't even GET to the register screen. but I wouldn't NEED to worry about that if the whole pirating thing wasn't so active.

JediKirby

There's nothing dangerous about it. And you can export a back-up copy of your registry before deleting anything, if you want. Just use the menu option.

Yeah it's actualy a program error, not an Autodesk ploy to stop pirates that ends up screwing you. Just a program error. Try a reinstall.



BTW, Heres what it should look like:

Oh dear.

/gasp