Hi folks

Yes, Poser7 downloaded (for all of you having troubles with it, I've used FlashGet (free) in two sessions yesterday and today (so it can nicely resume a download if eFrontier server is down again). So before installing it, I have a question to those users who installed it already:

1) OpenGL needed or an option for non-OpenGL cards?
   (I have two computers, a pc and a laptop; I work daily with laptop which has a NVIDIA; if P7 has an option for non-OpenGL cards I'll start to test it in my pc instead the laptop - I'm just rendering and I can't stop it)

1. Better to install it OVER Poser6, or separate installations for Poser6 and Poser7 crossing runtimes?
      (I have the fear of substituting my P6 with P7 and the classic crashes collection... all we know that not always the first release is the best, and I work with Poser, I can't paralize my schedule)

PLIZZZ TEHLL MEH :P

Casette
WOW you are lucky to have it all downloaded.  I'm still trying to get past that part.  I'm using a free DL manager so hopefully it will work.  Good luck my friend.

Adrian

By default I'm pretty sure they've (EF) set up the installer to put everything in a seperate directory so you can keep your older poser install intact (& should).

Never install one poser installation over another...ever.  When it asks you what folder to put it in just make sure it says poser 7 not poser 6.

*Better to install it OVER Poser6, or separate installations for Poser6 and Poser7 crossing runtimes?
   (I have the fear of substituting my P6 with P7 and the classic crashes collection... all we know that not always the first release is the best, and I work with Poser, I can't paralize my schedule)

Thats a good question...  what to do with P6 and its content...   I would think you install it separately then delete P6 except for the pertinent folders...  contents and such...   My content folders are a mess from trial and error installs of free stuff.....  I could just start all over again....

Also will P4...P6 free and otherwise content work on p7...

Hope someone has a good method to handle this...

I installed in separate locations and separate runtimes, so far it doesn't look like they step on each other at all that I can tell.  You probably want to get that from multiple sources before you trash your machine trusting me though.

There is a different viewport engine besides OpenGL (same as P6) called SreeD, that I've never used much.  Option is still there though.

I installed totally seperate to the P6 installation. 

At least you know where you are then! ;0)

I have copied across some earlier content I wanted to use successfully.

As to rendering......

HHmmm that is another tin of biscuits! :0/

Klutz. :0)

WOW I've finally got done DLing the whole thing.  Thanks for letting me vent earlier.  I have a question about the installation as well.  I'm going to keep my Poser 6 intact and now I'm currently installing 7.  My question is, Is it possible to take my Runtime folder from Poser 6 and rename it (Runtime 2) and place it in the Poser 7 folder?  Will that keep my content intact?  Or should I just keep Poser 6 installed and just run the Runtime folder from there?  Thanks in advance.

Adrian

Congratulations :)

I have no idea about your old runtime, I'm not even attempting to salvage anything from mine because I messed up quite a few things trying to move files around manually.

pjz

Well all my stuff is in my Runtime folder in Poser 6.  I didn't want to install Poser 7 over Poser 6.  When I add a new Runtime folder in Poser 7, It doesn't show any of my content from that folder and I have dam near 20 gigs of stuff in there.  So I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Adrian

Just a suggestion.....

If you have the hard drive space, copy the runtime to an external location and access it from both P7 & P6 if you find you have cause to need to.

Once you have created it and named the new runtime, spark up Poser and goto the top level of the library pallette. (It should show 'Poser 7' with a red dot against it and 'Downloads.'

You will see a + button at the bottom of the pallette.

Click on it and the legend 'Add Runtime' appears...You can then direct it to find your new external Runtime.

It works....I have just done it myself with my V4 Runtime as I was typing this! ;0)

HTH

Klutz :0)

A few things.. as previously mentioned NEVER install a newer Poser over and old version.

When you add runtimes you do NOT add the runtime folder itself.. you ass the folder it is actually IN. (In other words, you'll add your full "Poser 6" folder, and when you select that, you'll be in it's runtime.

Since you have a "fresh start" install all new content into some organised mmutliple runtime system. Don;t just drop everything into one folder.. you'll have crosstalk issues locating files, and it'll bog poser down to a crawl.

I'm DLing P7 as we speak but this is what I did with my other versions of poser. I created a folder in my C: drive and named it "External Poser Runtimes" then inside that folder I created a folder for each version of poser and Daz related stuff like this:

The Daz Runtime has all my INJ/REM poses and necessary  folders i.e Deltas, etc. Pose01 Runtime has all my content. Pose02 Runtime has poses and MAT files for clothes and characters. Pose03 Runtime has pose and mat files for footwear. And what I plan to do is make another folder in this External Poser Runtimes , copy the P6 runtime folder ( after I strip a few things out of it), paste into the new folder in the External Poser Runtimes and name it Pose04 Runtime.

Then when I get P7 downloaded and ready to install I will uninstall P6, delete any content folders left behind and then do a clean install of Poser 7 and re-link my external runtimes. But before I do any of that stuff I'll back up all the files in the Curious Labs and External Poser Runtimes folder to my external HD.

This was what I did when I installed P6 and had no trouble with different versions of poser duking it out with one another.

Quote - WOW I've finally got done DLing the whole thing.  Thanks for letting me vent earlier.  I have a question about the installation as well.  I'm going to keep my Poser 6 intact and now I'm currently installing 7.  My question is, Is it possible to take my Runtime folder from Poser 6 and rename it (Runtime 2) and place it in the Poser 7 folder?  Will that keep my content intact?  Or should I just keep Poser 6 installed and just run the Runtime folder from there?  Thanks in advance.

Adrian

You could do it that way but you'd be better to just leave Poser6 where it is & link to it from Poser7, you never know when you might need to run Poser6 again.

Ok, ya'll are scaring me.  I didn't get the full version of P7, I got the upgrade from P6 to P7.  Does anyone know how this will affect the content?  I have the new G2 males, Miki, a ton of freebie stuff and other stuff that had to be put in the Poser runtime.  

I will go mental if I have to redownload all this stuff. :blink:

It shouldn't affect anything Stevie, I did the upgrade as well.

P6 installs to Curious Labs/Poser 6, P7 installs to e frontier/Poser 7 by default. There's no chance of overwriting P6 unless you change the install path (definitely not recommended, unless you're putting P7 on anything but your main hard drive).

And I'd recommend against people uninstalling P6 just yet. There will undoubtably be the kinds of problems experience with an initial release of software, and if the program ends up unusable it'll save you the trouble of having to reinstall P6 just to use a version of Poser.

Whew!!  Thanks for relieving that paranoia!   Now I really can't wait until my package of fun arrives at my door! :thumbupboth:

I got Poser 7 downloaded and installed last night using FlashGet as well with no problems.  For content, what I've done for now is install Poser 7 into it's own directory, and then add the Poser 6 runtimes.  To do this, you go to the top level of say your Figures directory (where you have the option Poser 7 and Download), and you should see a + button in the lower right titled "Add Runtime" if you hover over it.  Click on it, and point it at your Poser 6 Runtime, and even your Poser 6DownloadRuntime folders to add  them to your library for P7 to use! =D

I haven't read all the replies in this thread, but to answer Casette's other earlier question, P7 still offers the SreeD software preview renderer, so no worries there.  Also, OpenGL isn't a brand of card, but rather a library standard that pretty much any video card you buy today supports.  Your nVidia laptop [i]should[/i] handle it fine.  If not, there's always SreeD.