Hello and Merry Christmas, Just got home from a long Christmas eve at work (retail) and downloaded the .exe file. I ran the file and when it ask to scan the drives for files, I clicked okay. Then when it launched, I got the hourglass on my mouse and then it went away. I restarted my computer and tried again. Same thing, Studio starts up, I get the scene, but the pointer stays on the "hourglass" for about ten seconds then the program closes. Anyone else have this problem?? Correction: (long day) the first time it launched after install, it just froze up and then closed. No hourglass I still haven't gotten it to launch. I have a P4, with plenty of ram and all that, so I don't know what could be the problem. Got to go to sleep before Santa gets here. Bill

Bill, On initial run DS prompts you for the drives to scan so it will know where the 'runtime' folder is. I put this on an Intel P4 mb/proc system and did not have any problems as far as startup running, but I only instructed DS to search the 'H' drive which is the only drive that I have the Poser 4 runtime folder in. Perhaps you have a backup of the runtime folder on another drive, a corrupted download, did you installed with an Av running or perhaps running Ds with an AV running. You could try uninstall/reinstall on DS and selecting the only drive to be scanned that has your 'working' Poser 4 runtime folder on it. HTH and Merry Christmas BabaLouie

I uninstalled it and reinstalled with everything shut down except Zone Alarm Pro. This time I did not search for content and it still wouldn't work. I searched for content only on my C drive where my Poser Runtime is and it still won't load. I will try later after Christmas. Bill