My XP machine recently died, and I was forced to get a new computer with Windows 7 64 bit home edition.

Everything I downloaded for Poser 8 is working fine except the stuff I got from DAZ, and since most of the stuff available is either for Victoria or Michael, this is a serious problem for me. Plus I'm annoyed because they got me to shell out money for some of the stuff, and I can not use it now.

The problem seems to be the installer. It opens up fine, but after I tell it I want it to install for Poser and not DAZ Studio, it tells me there's an error and closes down.

Any ideas on what to do?

It's customary to tell us what the error says.

Are you logged in as an administrator and is your UAC on or off?

You did remember to install DS on your machine first... their stuff won't install if you don't have it.

He's installing to Poser 8 Winterclaw..

Tell it to install for DS, then point it to your Poser runtime. The Poser runtime shouldn't be in whatever they're calling Program Files these days.

I doubt a Daz installer would be kind enough to say what the actual error is, or file an error log. I suspect it's trying to search for the Poser installation, but iunno.

Could this be the Poser.exe file issue ?   some of the Daz installers needed to find poser.exe in the folder that contains the runtime folder. It doesnt need to be poser.exe just an empty text file with that name.

Poser 8 is called Poser.exe.

Look there are about 15 different things that go wrong. One of them is the bug where some V4 installer won't work until you've installed at least one other Daz product. The solution to that one was not any of the things suggested so far - you had to make an empty ini file to fix it.

What's the error message? Otherwise, we're writing a bunch of crap - of which all has been written already many times.

Quote - He's installing to Poser 8 Winterclaw..

I thought the daz installers didn't work without DS on your machine, regardless of what you were installing to.

well, it depends on the installers for Daz. I've not had any serious problems installing on Poser 8.

The earliest Daz installers would look for copies of poser.exe, and the only problem with them is that they tended to take a minute or two to start up. Sometimes you could trick them by opening up the 'other' window they'd create. If you have multiple copies of Poser, usually once you set up which one was P8, it would load the rest of them there, at least during that session.

Later, they got more sophisticated, and would give you a choice between Daz and/or Poser. While I have an old copy of D|S, I never use it. But the file worked even before I ever loaded Studio, so I don't think it's a requirement.

Hope that helps...some...

I thought the daz installers didn't work without DS on your machine, regardless of what you were installing to.

I don't have DS on my machine, I have Poser 6, 7 and 8 and the DAZ installers put my new content in fine every single time.

The OP has gone from XP to W7, I'm guessing it's the UAC issue as most problems seem to relate to that these days for new users of W7.

always choose 'daz studio' to install to. also, with W7 you must have the runtimes outside the Program Files area. Vista and W7 does not like any wtriteback to the Program Files.

there will be no issues with Poser's built in runtime as that is part of the initial install.

but any extra content will need an external runtime, otherwise W7 is likely to shunt your new content off to a hidden temp folder.

scripts etc, must still be installed to the core app.

also, if you use some of thiose handy python scripts by D3D, you might need to get a .dll file off the net and install it to the appropriate folder in the (x86) folder. ( sorry, cannot remember the actual name of the .dll atmo, but W7 64 bit does not have it on install )

always choose 'daz studio' to install to. also, with W7 you must have the runtimes outside the Program Files area.

Why? I don't select DS when installing to Poser, I always select my Poser install and the DAZ installer does it no problem.

There is no "must" about having runtimes outside "program files" in Windows 7, it all depends if you have the UAC controlling it or not, if you don't then it works in there just as well as anywhere else.

This is why I asked the OP if he has the UAC on or off..

By default Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 put their main Runtime in your Documents folder (and with Poser 7+ you don't have to install the DAZ figures to the main Poser Runtime anyway). Choosing DS as the target application avoids the check for poser.exe with the base figures, which are still set up for Poser 6, but shouldn't otherwise make a difference (the ExP Addons look for the base figure's files, not poser.exe, and nothing else cares - barring upgrade products, of course). As BB says, another possibility is the missing dzInstall.ini fiel in c:Program Files (x86)Common FilesDAZ.

Error message:

There has been an error.

Error reading INI file C:Program Files(x86)Common FilesDAZdzInstall.ini

The application will exit now.

I also just tried telling it to install in DAZ Studio, and got the same error.

I am the administrator, but what is a UAC?

Hah! I was right.

It has nothing to do with UAC - ignore everybody else's advice. They were all good things to think about, but have nothing to do with you.

You need to manually create an empty text file in the exact place it was telling you. It does not have to have anything at all in it.  A blank text file.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3753907

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=77881

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2732462

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2806232&page=2#message_3673689

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3673327&ebot_calc_page#message_3673327

Woot.

Thank you.