I am going to put her through her paces this weekend.  I'll run some V4 content through the fitting room, to be followed by building some pose sets (not runway stuff, but normal poses.)
I haven't bought very much for her (the buried treasure sale is killing my CC.  I will have dropped $600+ by the time Week 5 ends - and I still have 100+ items on my Unavailable for Purchase wishlist).  I love the ability to upgrade any legacy figure in Poser Pro.

I have been hitting the buried treasure sales hard. My CC is in about the same shape.

My problem is that the bulk of my poser runtime doesn't have the DS mats (or support). Even if DAZ supplied the Meta-data, I didn't install.

I do love the way the DSON and G2F gals fit their clothing. Add a pose, and the clothing adjusts. Does A4 do that? No. With A4 I'm forever tweaking hips or thighs or boobs ... or even doing post-work to paint over the exposed flesh. Yah, in Poser there are cloth room & magnet tools, but the postwork in Gimp is far faster.

I have you tried Poser Copy morphs? A4 is a morph for Victoria 4. I use the Copy Morph for Aiko4, Girl4 and the She Freak body morphs.

I started with Poser 3 well more than 15 years ago. I have seen a lot of new things come and go. I not the biggest fan of new. Whenever something new comes up (ie dynamic clothing, indirect lighting, ambient occlusion, and ton of others), I test to see if it will work for what I want. I size it up on it's own merits. Some are good and some are not so good. I fail often but I learn and go on. I feel I have become a better artist by trying new things. At the end of the day, that's all we can do.

I have only one primary runtime, that's probably why I was not able to reproduce the issues. Before Poser 8, I would copy my old runtime into the new one. Now, I just point Poser at the old Poser 8 runtime and keep filling that one. I install all my DAZ Studio/DSON to that runtime as well. That probably explains why my runtime is over 490GBs.

I hope clearing the cache and setting the runtime helps.

I have not been able to duplicate the dials not working or the shoulders not working.

Here are the steps I tried.

1. Loaded G2F.
2. Set the Belle 6 morph to 1
3. Saved the scene as a PZ3.
4. Closed Poser.
5. Opened Poser and the saved file.
6. Tested the Belle 6, Kieko 6, Girl 6, Aiko 6, and Aiko 5 morphs. They all worked just. The heads morphed to a proper shape.

I repeated the test with file compression and PMD saving and everything worked. I am I missing a step?

For the shoulder issue,

1. I loaded a G2F applied the i13's Playful Callie6 #23 pose and saved.
2. Then I closed and reopened Poser.
3. Loaded the saved file.
4. Added a new G2F to the scene and applied the i13's Playful Callie6 #23 pose to it.

I noticed the arms did look like your image. But, the saved figure was at a X-Trans of -1 and the new figure was at a X-Trans of 1. When I set the X-Trans of both to 0, the arms were identical. So I am not able to duplicate that issue as well.

DSON Importer does have a cache location. You can see where it is in the Poser menu: Scripts->DSON Support->Import Preferences...

You could try emptying it's cache, but I don't know how it will effect your saved files.

My favorite Victoria 3 character OutOfTouch's Milena.

It looks like that should have put the forum through some QA before they released it. These are some really big issues.

I'm dishearted at the divides in the community too. You are not alone in frustration. I see the same forum posts. All the bickering and posturing sees to do a good job at chasing away those of us who just want make a good image.

So far the best way I found to deal with experts is to take their advice with a grain of salt. Some of it is opinon anyway. I explore the figures myself. I admit, it is a lot easier if the stuff is free. Sometime I succeed, sometime I don't. Just don't stop trying to grow as an artist.

As for content creators, they make stuff that sells. Unfortunately, creators usually end up making the same things over and over again. I think my Victoria 4 has about 20 bikinis. Granted I was the one who bought it for her. However, I have not been able to tow truck for her to drive.

Recently, I used PhilC's Wardrobe Wizard to convert some of Victoria 4's clothes to the other figures. Its not perfect, but it does expand those figures.

I hope you continue with 3D.

Also, I'm enjoying the rediscovery of old figures or figures I have not used much. I used Dawn, Stephaine Petite 3, and Victoria 2 in the attached image. I thought it turned out well. And, I am currently working on a comic that uses Victoria 4, Victoria 3, and Alyson 2.

I found using different characters adds wonderful diversity to my renders.

Impressive work! The likeness is amazing. Good job.

I have seen people post "Poser Pro exectable file has stopped working" error. In the posts they found it was caused by the library. The library uses Adobe Air or Adobe Flash. You could try uninstalling them. I am not sure if that would help. You probably will need to work with Smith Micro support.

Thanks for the FYI.

I found there is a way to tell Adoble AIR to not update itself. You have to download the Settings Manager. It is available at: http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/applications/SettingsManager/SettingsManager.air

Attached Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/3m5gbz5f8bjjgjm/PP2+exporter+20d.dsa.zip

I did not create it. I just found the link in the Daz Studio forums.

I guess with the government shutdown, the TSA had to find a cheaper way to grope you.

Thanks for the tips.

I will give Binary Morph Editor a second look and Poser File Editor a first. I hope they workout.

Quote - So if you are determined to use genesis, you can - with and without DSON. But it is a quite laborous experience.

I believe that is the main reason why Poser users have not imbraced Genesis. It's just too much work.