icprncss2 posted at 5:20AM Fri, 27 November 2015 - #4241143

P11/Pro11 has the same activation/deactivation feature that Game Dev has. You have two choices. Have your system on a dedicated internet connection or go through the manual activation. The documentation should have the information on manual activation. If you can't find it, either contact tech support and/or go over to the RDNA P10/Pro2014 forum and look for a lengthy thread "...yes, Poser deactivates..." or something to this effect. Near the end of the thread there is a step by step by one of the members who has gone through the deactivation/re-activation at least twice.

Basically, Poser now phones home every 60 days if it has a dedicated connection. If it does not, it must contact the activation server at least once withing 180 days or Poser deactivates. There is a way to manually activate but it does require an internet connection to obtain the activation information. Sometime in the future, SMS is supposed to create a portal that will allow you to register your copy and make the manual activation permanent to avoid the deactivation. How this works or when it will be available is anyone's guess.

The portal could be a while if the reports on the library are anything to go by, all the effort should be aimed at the first SR. If they don't fix that quickly there will be very few complaining about deactivation as most will have reverted to an earlier Poser version or moved on. I am certainly not considering the upgrade at any price until I see some of the bugs fixed and the portal up and running.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.