Accessing asset store makes the editor crash

Questions & Answers
1

With reference to this question and this other one.

Here I’m having the same issue with brand new installation of Unity3d 4.6 on brand new windows 7 ULTIMATE x64. I’m running it under VirtualBox with good memory configuration and 3d accelerator enabled.

The problem is that when I click to open the asset store it loads a white window with just the above part displayed correctly. After a few seconds it freezes and it appears a dialog saying that the editor has stopped working and will be closed.

This happens 100% of the times.

Trying to import packages directly from the editor I get the error saying

Error building package The server was
unable to build the package. Please
re-import.

So, at the moment I cannot deal with assets or tutorials via the asset store. The only thing I can do to achieve this is to have a friend downloading assets, creating projects and passing it to me, but this solution is not acceptable.

Any clue to solve this problem?

2

Seen comments before that Edit → Project Settings → Player and untick DirectX can fix the issue. But also seen that it doesn’t always work.

3

Got in this issue recently. I just:

  1. stopped Unity
  2. removed all the licensing related files from: C:\ProgramData\Unity\

And everything worked (licence reactivation window opened successfully)