I’m getting an error message this morning - “The Activation process failed because of an unknown server error…” when trying to open any of the applications in the NIK Collection 7.0.4 x64 version this morning.
I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but no success.
Happened to me as well. It is ridiculous given that this should be a perpetual license. I wrote to the customer support, we will see what are next steps. The same problem happened for other DXO software, but at least there I was able to re-enter the activation code. Here it just blocks on a hexagonal dialog, a really terrible UX. I was already thinking stopping renewing Nik Collection (there are no significant updates in v8 if you are not using Photoshop), but, after this, I won’t certainly upgrade.
Interestingly, Nik Collection 6, which I kept on the same machine because of PerspectiveFX, works. I tried uninstall/reinstall Nik Collection 7 but it is still blocked and doesn’t allow to enter the activation code.