

Please refer to Changing your License Settings page in the Set Up Your V-Ray License section for more information on the type of licenses you need to look for. If it looks like the screenshot below, the license server is working. Open the link a web browser on the same machine. If you receive an error message, please refer to V-Ray License Server Can't Start in this section. Make sure that Windows properly recognizes the dongle and doesn't show an error message. If you are using a dongle, unplug the dongle and plug it again in a different USB port, preferably USB 2.0. Please restart the machine with the V-Ray license server or dongle installed. When you try to render with V-Ray Standalone, an error message appears in the console: “Could not obtain a license (-98).” When you try to render with V-Ray Standalone, an error message appears in the console: “Could not obtain a license (10061).”


When you start the IPR render server, there are no error messages in the V-Ray console, but when a job is sent to the IPR render server, the error in the console is "Could not obtain a license (-98)." When you start the IPR render server, there are no error messages in the V-Ray console, but when a job is sent to the IPR render server there is an error in the console "Could not obtain a license (10061)." V-Ray connected to a working license server but there are no available licenses for the installed V-Ray version. When attempting to render, the Maya status line shows the message "error: Could not obtain a license (-98)". V-Ray could not connect to a working license server. When attempting to render, the Maya status line shows the message "error: Could not obtain a license (10061)" or "error: Could not obtain a license (111)" or "error: Could not obtain a license (61)" Please check the resolution part at the end of this section. Here you can find the list of symptoms and their likely cause when V-Ray could not obtain the license. Please re-download the installation file from the Downloads section of our website. The installation file is not downloaded properly. The installation file crashes when you attempt to run it.
