Unity License Error

Recently, I found out we had Unity 4.0 beta licenses. I went to download the beta, which can be found here. I went ahead and installed it and I got a message when I booted up 4.0 beta: “This Pre-release version of unity 4.0 can only be run by 4.x license holders”. The option listed on the box was “Quit Unity”. I thought it was strange that it didn’t even ask me to activate at all. Everytime I booted up Unity 4 it gave me this same error. Well after about a day, the error went away and it asked me to activate. According to Unity’s technical support this is because of the way Unity’s servers synchronize for licensing. Apparently their servers update early every morning, which is why I couldn’t activate until the following day. Well I made a mistake when I activated because I accidentally chose to use a free license instead of using the license key I had for the beta. So my machine activated as a free version which caused Unity to continue giving me the above-mentioned error. I couldn’t figure out how to get passed this so I got in touch with Unity support and they showed me how to reset your licensing locally on your machine.

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Here’s a solution for those of you out there who may be having Unity licensing issues and you want to re-activate your software:
1. Uninstall all versions of Unity (note that it’s probably a good idea to backup your important projects just in case)
2. Delete the directory (these are hidden folders):
* WinXP/Vista: C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Pace Anti-Piracy/License Files
* Win7: C:/ProgramData/PACE Anti-Piracy/License Files
3. Run the unity installer.
4. Wait for Unity’s servers to synchronize, this usually happens in the early hours of the morning (GMT).

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This fix worked well for me. It asked me to activate right away when I opened Unity. After activating it kept giving me the error but when I booted up Unity the next day, it worked. So it’s simply a matter of deleting the above-mentioned files and then just waiting for a day while their server’s synchronize.

I hope this information is useful. I know I looked all around the internet for a way to reset the licensing on my machine to no avail. Feel free to share this post to those in need!

Author: Mark Philipp

Active3 months ago

i'm having an issue at launching unity.

I just install Unity, log-in via google and had that error.

Now, the bug appears with not even login in.

I tried to reinstall, remove registry and it stills happen with not even login in anymore.

Unity License Activation

There's the link where you can see the bucle it keeps doing.

As you can see it keeps refreshing the license screen like it's trying to load something.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Vash

VashVash

5 Answers

I finally found a way to fix this problem.

First of all you have to know that the issue was with the license, it didn't activate properly, so it just keeps trying to activate again and again, and that's where the bucle was.

To solve this, i follow some steps made by myself, that came from a lot of research and combining some tutorials for others problems.

The first problem was I log-in only once, the first time I installed. After that I was unable to login again even with reinstall and remove registry. So I couldn't stop the bucle.

To fix that you need to uninstall Unity, remove registry (Ccleaner for example) and remove some hidden directories manually:

After removing all those files, you can have a clean install of unity, if you don't remove those, it will keeps login in on the same acc and keeping the bucle on.

So, after doing that the bucle will stop and it will let you login again. First problem solved

Now if you log-in the bucle will happen again, so we need to activate the license without login in. And we're doing it with the offline activation.

Unplug your ethernet, disconect from wifi, whatever, just make sure you don't have connection.
Open Unity and check that says 'No connection: Quit or Manual Activation'.
Click 'Manual Activation' and download the License Request.
Close Unity and connect your internet.
Go to the official Unity Manual Activation Page and upload your Request File.
Download the aproved license, it will request you an Unity account.
Unplug again the internet and open Unity on offline mode.
Click 'Manual Activation' and upload the Aproved License.
Make sure you have now access to Unity on offline mode and close it.

Second problem solved: License activated.

Now you only need to connect again your internet, then open Unity and you will see an activated license without login-in, so you can now log-in with the account you used on step 6.

And now the problem is solved. You have the activated license and you're logged-in.

It tooks me like '2 days' to make this solution for this poblem, hope i can help someone with this tuto and save ur time.

VashVash

I solved that problem using these steps.

Do clean install Unity.
Disconnect internet.
Open Unity
->Manual Activation<-
->Save License Request<- to C:ProgramDataUnity.
->Cancel<-
Connect internet and wait for response of Unity login window.
Login to Unity.
Create new License and Start your project.

You can also check it on Unity forum.

Unity Hub License Error

s4ykurts4ykurt

1- exit from unity

2- go to C:ProgramDataUnity

3- remove Unity_lic.ulf

4- open unity

5- reactivate the license

and it work.

R4y