Penguinisto posted at 2:14AM Mon, 16 December 2019 - #4373456

hornet3d posted at 4:33PM Sun, 15 December 2019 - #4373405

One of the reasons it will not work is that, when installed in Windows it creates an additional file which I believe might be to do with licensing. There is no way this can be generated in Linux. Despite the fact that Linux is not supported SM tech support did try very hard to get it to work for me a couple of years ago but it was really a non starter.

Wait... what? This is categorically untrue. You can have a binary write temp files all day long, you can have one write temp files which are encrypted as license files, and there's dozens of ways to do so, using a huge variety of algorithms and encryption schemata. Totally not buying that excuse...

Totally your right not to buy the excuse, it was one explanation that was given to me by SM tech support at the time and I do not know Linux well enough to be able to argue the point. What I do know a fact is that I had, and still have an installation of Linux Mint and I tried Wine and PlayonLinuxz and sometime ago I tried to get Poser Pro 2014 to work. I tried for about a week and did raise a ticket with SM tech support and, although they said Poser did not support Linux they did make a number of suggestions and I tried each one with no success. There then followed a series of emails between us and the explanation I suggested for it not working was in one of the final emails from SM. It did not say that Linux could not write binary files just that during the installation of Poser in Windows there is a file written that is referenced when Poser Pro 2014 was launched. It went on to say that looking at the way that the installation was written they could not see how the installation program could be successful in Linux. Bottom line is I could not get it to work but I did manage to install Poser Pro 2012 but in use it could hardly be described as stable.

Since then I have purchased a higher spec machine and reluctantly went to Windows 10 which I now use with Poser 11.2. Since this works for me I have not tried further with Linux although I do still use Linux on a daily basis just never to run Poser.

 

 

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.