Hutton...
I have Poser and I install to Poser's runtime.  I never use Poser except to install to. 
I point Daz to the Poser runtime and everything runs along smoothly. 
You can tell Studio to search for content and it will find it on your pc and give you access to it within the program. 
Occasionally you run into something that doesn't work but usually you will be warned before you download something if it won't work in Daz..

If you have poser..almost anything you have installed to it will work in Daz...and the freebies that are for poser will work in it too.

 

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