Got this message: Curious Labs Poser: poser ex -unable to locate componet This application has failed to start because MSVCP60D.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. Then Poser loaded, so I loaded vicky, went to the matrial room to load a texture and the materail page was blank with way to connect nodes. So I tried a Mat Pose, it was OK, went back to the materail room ... still blank. So I tried to render in the draft mode, it stopped on Loading textures. Tried to cancel and it locked up. I think I will go back to SR2... Cl it is way past time that you get it right.

NIles, did you re-boot after loading the SR4? I don't wait for anything to ask if I want to, I reboot everytime I install anything. May have been that it installed the .dll, but without it being registered, it doesn't know where to find it. (Registered as in the windoze registry, not with CL.)

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AND did you reinstall as it suggested? Just going in and playing without rebooting is one of the surest ways to make a mess of things even if the installation goes smoothly. Carolly

I didn't see anywhere in the sr4 readme telling me to reboot after installation. I didn't and P5 loaded and ran fine (for Poser, that is). While there are some programs that do ask you to reboot after installation, most nowadays are systems utilities and the like. And even then, the programs don't become corrupted if you don't reboot, they just don't work properly until you do. The only reason I know of for a reboot is to force a re-read of the registry. Not rebooting should have no effect on the program files themselves. IMO, if it does, there's a serious flaw in the program. It's beginning to look to me that sr4 is suffering from the same plague since p5's release: works okay for some, doesn't for others. Sorry I can't be of any more help.

I didn't reboot and it worked fine for me. mac

"It's beginning to look to me that sr4 is suffering from the same plague since p5's release: works okay for some, doesn't for others." (Jackson) Just wanted to amend this slightly with a broader truism: It's beginning to look to me that sr4 is suffering from the same plague since P3's release: works okay for some, doesn't for others.

I reinstalled and rebooted, it seems fine now. I have no idea what went wrong the first time. Thank everyone that made suggestions.

I think millman and Carolly hit it in post #2 and #4. Even if it doesn't tell you to reboot....it's always a good idea....even with XP and especially with 9X.

If a DLL has been loaded and used by a program since the last time you booted, an installer can't unload the DLL. So a reboot is needed before the new DLL is used. Until you reboot that previously loaded DLL is still loaded. I always reboot before and after doing an upgrade or install. Reboot before means the minimum of DLLs have been loaded, and reboot after to flush VM and allow new DLLs to load.