Unable to acquire a license when launching

[Quontyn]

Hey there, I've been using Houdini Indie on steam for about a year *exactly*. I should have the two year contract version, but suddenly when I launch through steam it tells me that it was unable to acquire a license and that I do not have any valid license installed.

When it opens the license administrator, I am able to install licenses for indie / mantra / karma 19.0 that expire july 12th, 2022, although they all say "Available 1/1". When I relaunch, I still get the same license error message. Not sure how to fix this with the Steam version.

Thanks!

[Ben (SideFX)]

Thanks for the message and sorry to hear you're having problems. Did you ever have Houdini FX or Core installed? The first fix to try is uninstalling any other non-Steam versions of Houdini and then try launching Houdini Indie from Steam again. You can also try switching to a different version of Houdini Indie by going to Properties > Betas, I'd recommend trying the Previous Houdini 19 Production Build first.

[Quontyn]

Ah nice, yeah if I select the previous production build in the beta properties I can launch and open my projects fine!

I never has FX or Core installed, but I did have a bunch of apprentice versions installed at one point. Didn't seem to change anything though when I uninstalled them.

Thank you for the help!

[Ben (SideFX)]

The license issue should be fixed now, you may need to reinstall Houdini Indie on Steam and restart your computer. Please let me know if you run into this (or any other) problems again.