hborre posted at 11:10AM Thu, 11 March 2021 - #4414735

Compatibility mode can and will solve some issues but anyone that wants to outright purchase dated versions of Poser must consider the availability of Service Releases, those are not as easy to come by these days.

Completely true, especially when it comes to Poser 5, which had some massive issues in the non-patched release version, if memory serves.

That said, depending on when it was purchased it may have the patches slipstreamed into it, or included on-disk? Not sure about that, though P4 and PPP I believe were fully patched when I bought the disks that I still have back in 2001-ish (and in many ways, PPP was the patch). I had an even older set of disks, but those got losts to the mists of time.