Yes ShadowWind, you're right: legally I shouldn't have installed it on other computers, I know. But it's not there anymore. It was a "temporary test". I'm not crazy (see below - and I'm certaily not "joking" here).

Now: imagine having bought a software that doesn't work, and after testing and trying and re-installing it still doesn't work. You write to the guys who created it, exchange several messages, and what comes out is - I resume - "unable to find an answer" :-( And NO-refound possible. Ok, I won't weep for this, I'll put it away, untill one day I hear all the problems have been solved. Why an app crashes on a PC can be very very very tricky to find out!

Would it be my first 3D app, and a loosy Windows (english?), I would really think it's my fault, or this PC. But it's a really SOLID Win2K SP4. ALL other apps are running quite perfectly (well: as perfectly as possible).

Now, don't be "afraid": one of those "test" computers was my IBM ThinkPad laptop (Win2K SP3), another one of my best friend's new PC (XP PRo), and another an ACER ASPIRE 2003 WLMI I stole to another friend for a few days (XP Home).
True: I created a Ghost image of Windows on each of them. Installed Vue Pro myself. Played with it. And when done, got back to the previous CLEAN Windows via Ghost, after re-formating C/. NO trace was left.(No key, a fortiori no Vue Pro; more: my friends just don't care about 3D and certainly wouldn't steal (? "stolen ?) their best friend's ref. number!! )

As I create myself some LITTLE installs now and then, I "run" those kind of procedure quite frequently.

As I wrote above: I'm learning WorldBuilder now, I can't go on and on putting hours in scenes that dissapear because "Vue4Pro.eon generated an error in Windows blablabla". And I won't install SoftIce and/or Ida Pro etc to check what happens to the system (which doesn't mean I'd know how to do taht).

You'll find here:
http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12368&Form.ShowMessage=1781175

as post n 19 my little "theory" about why Vue Pro crashes. (And as I wrote: I'm certainly totally wrong)
That "theory" works also for Poser 5, but as you know, and as you can read from Curious Lab's site, their initial protection has been removed, so AT LEAST the people who bought the software could play with it...

That's it for me. Those are just MY facts. If it works everywhere else, and for you, nice for you all :-) I won't kill myself for "this"! :-)

Best Regards and again: sorry for my poor english :-(

T J PS: Sorry to bother everyone, from now on I'll just shut up! :-)

Message edited on: 05/25/2004 20:02