Does anyone know if you can have both P4 and P5 installed in the same machine?? (although obviously not running simultaneously!) 2 totally separate, full installs, where there are unique licenses for each. I mean, having two systems and a switchbox for the monitor/kybd/mse is not a big issue, but it would be somewhat less of a pain having one machine...

my comp has both photoshop 6 and 7 installed and both progs still work fine. i would imagine poser would work too.

I have Poser 4 and Poser 5 on the same machine. The Poser 5 upgrade did not replace Poser 4 so I have full installs of each.

I have both installed on the same machine - P4 + Pro-Pack and P5 as separate installations. I have linked the P4 runtime folder to the P5 program but still use P4 for the majority of my work until I get accustomed to P5 (about 3 years hence)

I also have P4, P5, and the ProPack installed. You can only use one at a time otherwise, at least for me, they crash or lock. Ron

Attached Link: http://d2obrien@msn.com

I have P4 on my NT4 partition and P5 on my XP partition. Both have shortcuts on the XP partition and work fine on the XP alone. They are not physically on the same discs though are on the same machine. I point this out as P5 is not suitable for NT4 though P4 works very well on NT4. David O'Brien

I also have p4pp and p5 installed and working well in the same machine. They can't work simultaneously but my computer don't crash.

P5 upgrade will install to a different directory if you choose and each will open. They will not open together though so you can't have two sessions going. If I open P4/PP its fine, and if I minimize and then open P5, its a no go. I'm still buying DAZ stuff and loading it to P4 with pbooost then using P5 to manipulate things. That way I don't have to create different libraries, I can stay with the scheme I currently have from P4.

Cool, thanks for the answers! I thought it might be ok, but wanted to know if there were any horror stories before going through all the trouble. Eric, that's exactly what I was thinking - use all of my Daz stuff with P4 and P5 for everything else. What is pbooost by the way? Thanks again!

I've got both on the samne box, never tried running both at the same time though, I'll try that when I get hoem :) later jb

Although I wish that Poser 5 would have simply updated my Poser 4 Pro Pack, it won't do that. I am likely to have both on my machine indefinitely. I would be a night mare to have to reinstall all the extra figures, props, and accessories if I only had Poser 5. I also purchased extra python scripts from Daz (including lighting ones that I've often used) and guess what--Pro Pack python scripts won't run on Poser 5. Someone said in a thread that it's a newer version of Python and won't run the older scripts :(. So far Daz hasn't released any Poser 5 products that I know of, could this possibly be because of the rumored new Daz application to be coming out? Maybe some things simply won't be usable with Version 5, so as you see it's not as easy as out with the old and in with the new. In an ideal world Poser 5 would have updated my old version and all the old stuff would have just been there and compatible with it, but we're not living in that kind of world unfortunately.