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Entering the right product key during installation

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Ever wonder how the installer validates the product key?

No? Well I did, because that’s the kind of thing you wonder about in tech support, because sometimes cases come in about “the installer won’t accept the product key”.

I did a little checking with Process Monitor, and I found that the Setup includes a SoftimageConfig.pit file, and that pit file contains the valid product keys. During installation, setup will extract Setup\SoftimageConfig.pit, write it out to the %TEMP% folder, and use it to validate the product key entered in the installer.

During the actual installation, SoftimageConfig.pit will be added the ProductInformation.pit file on the local system.

The pit file contains product information like the product key and the license feature names (read more about the .pit file here and here).

For Softimage there is the regular product key 590E1, as well as all the different Suite product keys.

Adventures with Composite 2013

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My version of Composite 2013 never did start. It always gave me a Runtime Error at startup:

So I removed it and installed Composite 2013 SP1. That version silently failed: in fact, I wasn’t sure it was even running until I used Process Monitor to watch composite.exe. Process Monitor showed me that Composite was writing log files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\toxik\logs, and I found this in the stdout.log:

Exception encountered: Cannot determine a product license to use.

This suggested to me that I needed to set the environment variable ADSK_COMPOSITE_LICENSE to Softimage, and that did the trick (when I checked, that environment variable was set to 3DSMAXDESIGN, and that’s why Composite was silently failing).

As a bonus, I also found the Composite Licensing log file %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\toxik\adlm.Composite.2013.log. The log entries make me think that my Runtime Error was caused by a Product Information (PIT) file problem. That’s why installing Composite 2013 SP1 fixed the problem.

584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	Reason=Fatal error
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	OS=6.1.7600.
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=584
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT]
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing]
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	Reason=Fatal error
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	OS=6.1.7600.
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=585
584	2012/07/06	11:19:44	AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	Reason=Fatal error
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	OS=6.1.7600.
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=584
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT]
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:17	VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing]
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:18	Reason=Fatal error
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:18	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:18	OS=6.1.7600.
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:18	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=585
9448	2012/07/06	11:23:18	AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	Reason=Fatal error
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	OS=6.1.7600.
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=584
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT]
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing]
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	Reason=Fatal error
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	OS=6.1.7600.
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=585
13860	2012/07/10	16:03:29	AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	Reason=Fatal error
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	OS=6.1.7600.
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=584
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT]
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing]
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	Reason=Fatal error
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	ComputerName=MTL2UA0150CWY
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	OS=6.1.7600.
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=585
8368	2012/07/17	09:50:58	AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]