Hello !

Anyone else facing issues after the Microsoft 24H2 and 2025-01 Updates ? - vMix came up with a Message, that the hardware has been modified and that it needs a reactivation of vMix. Just imagine !
Had similar problem with my waves plugins as well, as after installing the updates in Windows, something changed in the way the hardware is recognized and that deactivated all of waves plugins. Funfact: These plugins can only be recovered once a year, so I am forced to turn of all Windows Updates to minimize the risk, that after the next updates, the same or similar issue will come up again...
I am working as IT support and also at my workplace, we had hundreds of computers, where 24H2 was not installing properly and had to be forced to install by a repair installation from the Windows Image... Sorry Guys, but Microsoft is more and more bullshitting and this is not acceptable ! High time for vMix to change OS plattform...

Cheers
Marco

Look up what the registration is tied to.

Now you know how to overcome that issue moving forward, if this happens again.



To what?

Because if you want to talk about Waves plugins, Mac users have far more issues with needing to buy the upgrade plan to make their plugins work again than Windows users do.

Mac updates, even outside the very plugins that you yourself mentioned which have a reputation for breaking with Mac updates, are far more likely to break software than Windows updates are.

So that's certainly not the answer to that problem.

And switching to Linux or any Linux offshoots are just going to cost them marketshare, because people will just move to a competitor before they move their entire OS to Linux to keep using vMix.

So what's that leave?

Windows 10 until the sun rises in the west! Practically, no one is forcing us to upgrade to Windows 11. My only personal hope is that vMix doesn't "abandon" us and make future versions exclusively for Windows 11 and beyond. If, in the future, Windows 13-14 improve (after all, Microsoft is known for failures like Vista, etc.), then yes, we can move forward.

Bumping this thread as linked to our experience. Cannot believe we are the only ones.

https://forums.vmix.com/...1-24H2-update#post117681

DMack, you say:



I do try to turn-off windows update in services.msc but Microsoft still manage to get their nags through to update. In our case, an unsuspecting user went forwards with the update and now we are left with a machine that cannot access the audio inputs! Unfortunately, this device is being used for streaming daily and so we are waiting for a weekend to either roll-back, re-install vMix or use the back-up machine (which is running Windows 10, ironically). Wanted to gauge the Community's views before deciding which order to tackle things in! :)

Thanks to all.

Indeed, even if users have had problems with this update, you might want to update your version of vMix instead of blaming Windows 11 directly...