Tomsde opened this issue on May 12, 2012 · 80 posts
randym77 posted Mon, 14 May 2012 at 2:14 PM
Quote - What's wrong with the installers anyhow? I think they are easier to deal with and then if you accidently install to a wrong directory you can uninstall it and reinstall correctly. With zip files you have to hunt down all the folders and manually delete them if you don't want something somewhere.
I hate installers because they are so slow. If you've bought a lot of products, the installers take forever. Unzipping is much faster. Worse, sometimes installers refuse to install where you want them. For awhile, DAZ forced you to install things into the main runtime, because their morph injections didn't work properly if you installed it to an external runtime. But there was a fix for that, and many of us used it, and continued to use external runtimes. But DAZ's installers wouldn't allow you to install to external runtimes. You had to install to the main runtime and move everything over, or "trick" the installer by putting a file called poser.exe in your external runtime.
I re-installed V4 yesterday, and had to deal with it again. It wouldn't install into my new V4-WM runtime, because there was no Poser.exe file in it. I've also had serious problems installing other figures because the installer was looking for something it couldn't find. I ended up having to do things like edit .ini files to get it to install. That's easier? My anklebone.