Hello,

I have two PCs in a LAN (connected by a hardware-router), one for testing software (the older one) and surfing and one for productive working (the newer one). Both have Poser 4 + ProPack + Poser 5 installed (latest patches for both). As far as i know it is allowed to install Poser on two or more PCs with one licence as long as only one installation is running at the same time.

The problem is:
When i start only the newer one of the two PCs Poser 4 or 5 doesn't start. It quits again immediately after starting without reporting an error. Poser also stops working, when i turn off the older PC during working on the newer. First time when this appeared it i thought the installation was damaged and completely reinstalled Poser 4, ProPack, Poser 5 + all the patches - two hours work for nothing.
It is ok that a software checks throgh LAN if there a more than one instances running at the same time but it is not acceptable that the software doesn't work when the other PC is turned off or when there is no LAN available.

I had reported this already to Curious Labs customer service. The answer was:

It sounds like there may be some installation problem here. Poser does not REQUIRE the presence of a LAN to run, it simply publishes the serial number to the LAN in to check for duplicates. I woud recommend uninstalling and reinstalling the software on each machine. Note that it is not recommended you install it on one and then copy the installation to another PC. The installer needs to add some registry entries for Poser to function properly.

I would recommend disconnection the systems from the LAN when you install. Then launch and serialize Poser on each machine to verify proper functioning. Then connect each machine to the LAN and see if the problematic behavior returns. If so there problem would appear to be in the networking software. Note also that Poser will still run if denied access to the newtork.
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I deinstalled and reinstalled again: No difference.

By the way: Since i have installed hundreds of models in my runtime directory i didn't delete the runtime directory (which i had copied from the older PC to the new one). I only deinstalled the applications and cleared the root directory of Poser 4 and Poser 5 before reinstalling.

**Does anyone have the same problems?
Is there any workaround for that?
Is it a PACE problem?
Is there any specific file i have to delete (maybe in another directory?) or are there specific lines in the registry i have to delete in order to make a clean new installation?

**Any suggestion appreciated ...