Workaround for Traktor working on Win 8.1?

mindshift

I'm using Traktor 2.11 now for thousands of hours. Never change a running System. I have 2 almost identical old Lenovo Laptops which i use for Mixing and Streaming. On the harddisk in the "better" laptop is everything i do daily. On the other harddisk is just plain Win 8.1 with OBS.

Since i use the "better" Laptop for streaming, i have to change harddisks everytime. The Processor of the "weaker" laptop simply is not good enough for streaming so i use it just for mixing (which is already bringing it to its limits).

When i wanted to stream today, the unfamiliar Popup came when i start Traktor, stating "hardware has changed,please register" which is stupid in itself that the software does not recognize the machine. But i was used to it in the past as it took only a few seconds to fix this. I haven't streamed for a long time so i wasn't aware of the actual Native Access Problem.

Stupid enough, when i downloaded the actual version of Native Access, it didn't even say "This version is not compatible with your Windows version" so i tried for almost an hour to get it to work until i had to google the issue and i ended up here. Deinstalling Access was a nuisance and after reinstalling 1.14.1 the same screen appeared stating "no compatible update found, download failed"…

So, yeah, it seems like i ****** it up forever, since i can't run Traktor properly anymore, because i cannot activate it in Native Access, although i'm using it for over 6 years on this machine.

Haven't i changed harddisks, it still would be working forever…what a f*ckup that is NI wise…there wasnt a single hint or message in Access that was related to "this version is not working anymore because support is no longer implemented blabla." nothing

I simply can't afford a new laptop and i'm used to Win 8.1 since its release. Upgrading to Win 10 is not an Option, the hardware simply won't get along with it.

So if any superhuman here has a workaround like i've seen here for apple systems, a crack or anything that lets me use the software for longer than 30 minutes now, much help would be appreciated.

If you're just here to hate comment and tell me "get a new laptop" blahblahblah…save it for yourself! Won't happen. I'm 48 and simply do neither have the time nor the energy to set up a complete new machine with new Traktor and scanning 140k Tracks, library, collection etc.

If you can't provide any helpful solution, simply don't answer! I'm fed up with trolls postcount+1…

Thanks in advance.