Hi All,

Let me start by saying "thank you" to any who choose to help

I have found that DAZ wants me to only install V4.1 into the original Poser 7/runtime directory. I REALLY do not want to do that so I tricked the install flies into putting V4.1 in another directory. Now she takes forever (2 minutes or more) to load up. Is this because I stuffed her off in her own directory? I have not looked yet to see if she is compressed. Maybe she is and I can uncompress her, that I am sure would help. Or does installing her in an unsanctioned directory break links to other files?

Any ideas?

Phuz

Let the DAZ installers pick where they put V4.1's file, it will save you a lot of grief later on.

The installed files are not compressed.

I learned the hard way, don't play around with the DAZ installations, other than pointing them to your Runtime.

Did you read the readme? There are technical reasons why some of the V4.1 system files have top be in the top directory.  Once you have installed her there, you can move the "library" files where ever you like, and she should load fine.

Only the !DAZ folder has to remain in the original Poser 7 directory. One thing that can cause a long load time is your runtime being to large. Here's a couple of links to daz threads that can help you with what you need to know and where the files go. The first link adzan tells you which files can be moved.

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=57491&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=54

[http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=57553

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All of that can be circumvented.

• Install V4.1 wherever the installer wants (in the default Library)
• Install whatever morphs you may have that require ExP (basically just the muscle morphs as far as I know)
• Let the V4.1 updater run one time

Then open Poser:
-  Load a V4.1 into a blank scene from the default Library

• Re-save the figure back into whatever Library you want

This writes a one-piece CR2 file that should load quickly.  This leaves the geometry and textures in your default Runtime, but these files can be moved if you really want to move them via editing the text file of the CR2 by hand, but as far as I know, since these files don't live under RuntimeLibrary, they shouldn't affect Poser's performance, so that might not be worth your effort.

Becouse Poser 7 allows you to use a shallow file search you can use V4.1 in an external runtime with little to no extra wait. simply go into your Poser general prefrences and switch your file search under library to shallow. you will find that fixes your wait issue. I wish Poser 5 and 6 had this option.