tcobb opened this issue on Aug 31, 2005 ยท 36 posts
an0malaus posted Fri, 02 September 2005 at 5:08 AM
My experience with Tiger upgrades from 10.3.9 on a dual 2GHz G5 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro driving dual monitors is that I have come to the conclusion that the 10.4 and 10.4.1 upgrade installer as well as the installers of some software updaters from Apple prior to 10.4.2 were the repeatable causative agents for the dialog window appearance problems in Poser 6 and Bryce 5. What I did find was a reliable fix, on my system at least, was to use the archive and preserve users method of migrating to and updating to 10.4.2 without recurrence of the Poser dialog problems. Having used the upgrade installer method to go from P6 preSR1 on 10.3.9 to 10.4.0, I found P5 still usable, but P6 and Bryce 5, though not Bryce 5.5, to be suffering from the dialog windows opening behind the application window. After a false lead implicating dual monitor use, someone reported in the forums here that they had had success with the archive and preserve route. When I re-ran the 10.4 installer and chose that option, lo and behold, Poser 6 and Bryce 5 behaved themselves as expected (at least as well as the pre SR1 version could be expected to) with visible and usable dialogs. I went the same route with the 10.4.1 update and again experienced no problems. However, a subsequent software update broke Poser 6 once more. Going back through the 10.4.0 and 10.4.1 archive and preserve updates restored P6 functionality. 10.4.2 came along and I was pleased to see that its archive and preserve update left P6 in a working state. I have installed all the software updates from Apple since then and none has broken P6 yet. I do hope that this information is of assistance. Both to those who have experienced problems and rolled back to 10.3.x and those who have held off grasping the tail of the Tiger. Maybe if my success can be replicated and reported by those who have seen the same problem, some confidence can be restored. Cheers, GeoffIX
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