is it the european ver or the us ver you have ??? if its the euro you need a second code and its probley that its looking for,,

The beta was put up last night in 'patch' format because the IT had left the office for the weekend. When everything is done through StardockCentral activation is less of a sticky issue, but when dealing with individual EXE's it becomes more painful

I dont know much about the matter, but your Serial Number should work when the game requests an activation code. Check your game directory, make sure a sig.bin file was created, and if all this works but the game dosent activate, then you may have to wait until Monday for a proper exe to be released via SDC (unless someone who knows more can help you guys out)

Sorry I don't have more info to pass along

European CE editions didn't have a serial number. There is a link in the downloads section top-right "Bought your game in Europe? Click here" which generates a serial, which is in turn e-mailed to you and which Stardock Central can re-mail to you at any time.

That's what it requires, and since it's a beta I really don't think there's any room to complain at all.

Yep, I just tried it now and that's exactly what you need, the serial and NOT the collectors edition code (which starts GC2 and is on the back of the manual). Blame the European publisher, not Stardock, for this mess.

I as well am having problems. I copied the serial # right out of the registry, then tried copying off the back of the cd case about 12 times - I keep getting "Invalid Activation"

There is a free standing no activation download of the 1.1beta finally released right now in downloads section. No Stardock involved. I just downloaded it 25 megs and patch my game. Have you tried that?

Yup, My patched CD game is no longer available to play. I disconnected from inet and entered my serial number but no cigar.

you all might remember that the exact same thing happened during the last patch. A new version of the same patch was put on the site that worked fine. Probably a beta issue.