Trouble with 7.5 reinstall

[trentonia]

Guys,
I had been having trouble with LW. My graph editor wouldn't work. It pops open and immediately closes. Also, when I try to add a particle emmitter or effector, LW has a fatal error and quits. I uninstalled everything and then reinstalled LW 7.5 from the CD. When I started it, it said that I had 14 days to register. I opened the license key file, typed in my license key number, and saved the file. Now when I open it, it says that the license key is invalid and that it will only run in demo mode. I think I read some stuff in the forums about this problem. I can't seem to find the appropriate posts. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get LW running again. Thanks.
greg

[gjjackson]

Originally posted by trentonia
Guys,
I had been having trouble with LW. My graph editor wouldn't work. It pops open and immediately closes. Also, when I try to add a particle emmitter or effector, LW has a fatal error and quits. I uninstalled everything and then reinstalled LW 7.5 from the CD. When I started it, it said that I had 14 days to register. I opened the license key file, typed in my license key number, and saved the file. Now when I open it, it says that the license key is invalid and that it will only run in demo mode. I think I read some stuff in the forums about this problem. I can't seem to find the appropriate posts. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get LW running again. Thanks.
greg

One thing about the license: I would check the Sentinel driver.
As far as crashing: Try deleting all the cfg files; lw3.cfg, lwm3.cfg, etc.
I also read on a user group about registry entries. I had a plugin that kept crashing and I did all the above to no avail. I found that there were corrupted registry entries. Search the registry for Newtek and you'll see items listed there, especially under Lscripts.

Greg

[korn_kid]

My graph editor wouldn't work. It pops open and immediately closes.

I had the same problem a while ago, to fix this just delete Lightwaves cgf. files.(lw3.cfg, lwm3.cfg, etc.)
Then reload your plugins.
TIP: Always backup your cgf. files, because this could happend again (it did with me).
That way u don't have to reload your plugins, settings etc.

I opened the license key file, typed in my license key number, and saved the file.

Make sure u save it as license.key and NOT license.key.txt,
and place it in the same location where LightWav.exe, Hub.exe & Modeler.exe are.

If u still have trouble then I suggest u search in the old Lightwave Forum.(I think I saw similar question on this subject)