Is the trial version not working?

[Ichinzen]

So i downloaded the trial versioin of rpg maker vx in order to reduce the exp req for some charcters in a game since im spending far more time grinding than anything else, but the thing keeps telling me that my t30 day trial has expired even though this is the first time i've actually had it on my computer. I'm about ready to simply give up on trying to get vx to work but i'm not going to buy just to modify 1 game to reduce the amount of grinding. i downloaded a trial version of 1.02 elsewehre and it didn't give me the 30 day expiration notice however apparently the game  was made on a later version of vx than 1.02.

 

[Andar]

First, are you talking about VX or VXA?


Usually that message happens if you had installed the trial at some time in the past but forgotten it.


There are  only two other possibilities where this message can come up, and you won't like either of them:


1) Your windows has a damaged or overloaded registry and can no longer save data into it. If that is the case, you should already have gotten to other problems in windows with other programs and drivers - and the only solution to that is to delete reinstall the entire windows.


Basically the longer Windows exists, the more data is added to the registry. After several years of working with it, the size of the registry can go beyond what your computer can handle (depends mainly on RAM and number of drivers) and the registry will be incompletely loaded on starting windows, dropping more and more data until nothing works anymore.


2) you have a problem with your date and clock settings


This usually happens if the clock battery on your mainboard is exhausted - but that would require about ten years of computer operation, unless you have a technical problem that caused the battery to be emptied faster than usual.


Both of those options should have resulted in you getting other problems with your windows already, not only trial installation - so largest probabiliy is still that you have forgotten an earlier installation of the trial...