Vegas Pro18 continually requiring License validation-check to function

Frederick-Reed wrote on 3/29/2021, 7:59 PM

My 'issue' is "Vegas Pro 18" continually (daily) requires an Internet Connection to validate-check validity of my License. Yes. my PC System experienced a major component failure that necessitated replacing the Motherboard and CPU to that of which "Vegas Pro18" was originally Installed on. There is no problem with my License being validated, via the Internet....my problem is that this requires to be done on a daily basis; therefore, "Is there a way for the License to be validated permanently, so that I don't have to continually (daily) have to connect my major "offline" Video Editing PC to the Internet? The OS is "Windows 10 Prov1903" I would greatly appreciate any assistance with this. Thank you.

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Musicvid wrote on 3/29/2021, 8:27 PM

When you replaced your hardware, your Machine ID changed. So your email registration no longer matches the validation string. This should fix it:

  1. Go to your Magix Account, and deactivate your registration.
  2. Then, start afresh with a new registration. You can use the same Email and Serial Number, but do not enter your old Machine ID. It will regenerate automatically with the new hardware checksum.
EricLNZ wrote on 3/29/2021, 9:08 PM

To further add to Musicvid's comment my understanding is (but I'm always open to correction) that Registration and Activation are not the same thing.

When you first fire up Vegas software you are asked to register it using an email address. The software serial number is then registered against that email address. Users cannot change this registration so if you pass your Vegas software onto someone else only Magix staff can deregister it so the new user can register it with their email address.

Vegas is then activated to one of the activation slots using your machine ID. You can have two activations (other than Pro 365).

So

  1. Going to your Magix Account you actually deactivate your activation(s), not your registration
  2. You must use the same email address that was previously used for registration. A different email won't work as your serial number is already registered with your previous email address.

 

vkmast wrote on 3/30/2021, 2:35 AM

See also set e.g. here.

Musicvid wrote on 3/30/2021, 8:26 AM

@EricLNZ Thanks for your clarification. I spoke off the top of my head, which is getting less reliable these days.