06-22-2022, 12:31 AM
A few days ago, I fired up GameMaker 8.1, and it gave me a message saying that my license can't be validated. Because of this, it's running as the lite version, instead of the standard (AKA pro) version. Normally, this would happen if I'm not connected to the Internet for a while. However, my Internet connection has never been knocked out lately this time. I opened it up about every day since then, and it continues to give me that message.
Is there any way to fix this? The message said that I could manually download the license verification file from the YoYoGames website, but I'm not really sure about that. I looked through the help section of said website, and I couldn't find anything related to the problem I'm currently having. Did YoYoGames stop supporting GameMaker 8.1 for good? If that's the case I guess I could either port any games to Game Maker 8.0 (though, I wouldn't be able to use the pro features, but the watermark shouldn't be there) or GameMaker: Studio 1 (I can still use that program's standard version, but it lacks a few features like MIDI support).
Is there any way to fix this? The message said that I could manually download the license verification file from the YoYoGames website, but I'm not really sure about that. I looked through the help section of said website, and I couldn't find anything related to the problem I'm currently having. Did YoYoGames stop supporting GameMaker 8.1 for good? If that's the case I guess I could either port any games to Game Maker 8.0 (though, I wouldn't be able to use the pro features, but the watermark shouldn't be there) or GameMaker: Studio 1 (I can still use that program's standard version, but it lacks a few features like MIDI support).