lynnJonathan opened this issue on Nov 27, 2003 ยท 8 posts
lynnJonathan posted Thu, 27 November 2003 at 11:35 PM
I'm sure alot of you have upgraded to XP. Did Poser Pro Pack or Poser 5 still run fine. Or would I have to reinstall? Did other programs need to be reinstalled as well. I'd like to upgrade but I fear the worst - days and days of reinstalling drivers and software!
xantor posted Thu, 27 November 2003 at 11:50 PM
I think you will have to reinstall I only reinstalled windows 98 on my computer and I had to reinstall poser. I think that the registry is deleted and that is why some programs don`t work right. Usually smaller simpler programs still work without reinstalling.
narsil posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 1:35 AM
I pulled my complete poser directory over the network to a new folder on a new computer- worked fine I've also taken the "old" HDD and stuffed it into a new computer with no problems. both poser 4 and 5 still working. mind I was going from a windows 2000 NTFS file system to an XP NTFS file system ( not FAT 32) so I cannot say if the file allocations would remain the same. I repeat I did not reinstall poser on any of my machines
jarm posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 1:52 AM
I would backup the runtime folder, just in case. But I upgraded from Win98 to Win2000 and then to WinXP and all my programs were fine, including Poser. Poser it's OS specific in terms of Windows, therefore doesn't need to amend any files to run on any of them. Best wishes Jody
xantor posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 2:25 AM
I couldn`t get python to work so the only way to fix it was to reinstall poser
Bobbie_Boucher posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 2:41 AM
I always decide to wipe my hard drive and start again from scratch whenever I update the operating system. Of course you need to be sure you've backed up all important data, and you have your drivers etc. And you need to be sure you have the CD for your previous Windows version if you bought the update version of Windows XP. It's just better in the long run to start with a good clean install...
stewer posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 4:28 AM
Upgraded from 2k to XP - no problems, all the programs I had installed worked like before. A pleasant surprise.
RHaseltine posted Fri, 28 November 2003 at 6:50 AM
Upgrading is always chancy - too much risk of something being left that should have been deleted or vice versa - and is strongly discouraged by many developers. You can do a clean install from an upgrade disc - it should just prompt you to stick the old OS disc in the drive for verification. Poser seems pretty tolerant about being moved, but at worst you would need reinstall only the application and then just copy your Runtime back (if you backed it up).