Hi folks

Just two minutes ago I've received an email from eFrontier. Order complete. Links for download two (big) files. Serial and two coupons
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Thank you for purchasing Poser 7. This coupon is good for a FREE 6 month Passport Subscription at ContentParadise.com. Please visit www.contentparadise.com/passport6mo to activate now!

Thank you for purchasing Poser 7. This coupon is good for $10 off content at ContentParadise.com before December 31, 2007. (Good on e frontier provider products only.)**

... and downloading. The second storm of the week is here ... ;)

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"Poser isn't a SOFTWARE... it's a RELIGION!"

I recieved mine too, and the download keeps stopping at 5% in :(

Congratulations, Casette....

Looks like you are first......

First to post here or at the D place anyways! ;0)

I hope the D/L holds together for you!

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In faecorum semper, solum profundum variat.

Doesn't sound too smooth then, psyvampiress! :0(

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Life is a beta.

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I'm not able to login to CP or e-frontier for several days now. I already let ef know it but it seems that there are no problems if they try it themselves. Maybe a problem with german/european backbones or DNS-Servers...

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

Are you ready for Antonia? Get her textures here:

The Home Of The Living Dolls

I imagine any downloading is going to be tough for awhile, especially during 'peak' hours. I had that problem at Daz with one of their big softwares. I finally waited and was able to download at like 3am my time when nobody else was trying. I haven't received my download link yet but I'm not worried. I bet they're staggering those releases so as not to completely overwhelm their servers.

Try a different browser yet? For a while I couldn't get in unless I used firefox.
Marque

I just went to view order status, got on but it is really slow. So, I will not go on until most have their downloads, don't want to cause any more hiccups unnecessarily. Sharen

uh oh.....now I can't get in and I was just there a little while ago.

Quote - I recieved mine too, and the download keeps stopping at 5% in :(

Same here. The most I have been able to get home is 133Mb.
I'm going to sit and watch it. Maybe then it behaves.
Don't want to miss the download and end up at the end of the waiting line.

I tried to log in with Firefox and IE - no result since last thursday...

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

Are you ready for Antonia? Get her textures here:

The Home Of The Living Dolls

Looks like a MONSTER download...

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"Poser isn't a SOFTWARE... it's a RELIGION!"

I changed from firefox to IE and the download seem steady as a rock right now.
32% on the way!

i guess that i was lucky. i preordered poser 07 on the 14th soon after it was announced and got my downloads early this afternoon. and yeah, a huge download! i use ie6, it crapped out on me once, i turned off my virus and extra programs and the rest went well...almost 1.7 gigs on the program and i think much less on the content....

i thought i would be at the lower end of the list, but it worked fine. i recieved an email with my download urls and the extra coupons...

i'm probably not going to install right away...real life takes priority.

i have time warner cable and it still took almost two hours to download it all.

aloha

timo

Someone mentioned trying GetRight for your downloading in the event that you have to resume.

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Well I ordered on the 27th, so... somebody wake me when my link goes live. :)

Maybe if lucky, It'll be there by close of business and I can do it overnight, but I'm expecting sometime Wednesday most likely...

Truth has no value without backing by unfounded belief.
Renderosity Gallery

3 minutes left and I got this!!!

I also tried GetRight but it didn't connect.
This is soooo frustrating! Now what am I to do? :scared: :mad:

BTW, I placed my preorder the 13th October and got my link this evening.

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I tried GetRight again and now it works! Faster and will resume a broken download (I hope).

That is a real downer, Tiny!! :0(

Take a deep breath and have another bash! :0/

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Life is a beta.

In faecorum semper, solum profundum variat.

Ergh, at this rate I guess I'm not getting my copy until the end of the week.

They really should have set up a separate server for the downloads, I suspect a lot of people don't realize they will be recieving an e-mail notification as to when their dl is ready and they are probably constantly checking, jamming the site with unneeded traffic.

I would have never known that there was an e-mail notification system if I had not been reading these forums. And think, there are probably thousands of people who don't check forums and bought P7.

1.63 GB...... that is one giant leap ahead compared to P6's filesize :P

Time to change to a different pace, I think I will be getting Poser 7 and Vicky 4 as my post-birthday
or as a Christmas present, that means I will have to gradually "retire" some of my V3 stuffs.

Vicky 4 looks pretty good IMO, a much better constructed model compared to V3.

I've got m mail now, too (very comfortable with this directs link, serial and everything in it!!) - but as during the last days: "Page not found...". I emptied the cache several times, tried to reach the site with our server-pc, hubby tried it. No chance. I think I will stay patient and wait for the storm to calm down.

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

Are you ready for Antonia? Get her textures here:

The Home Of The Living Dolls

Trying to download the files since hours. 0% is all I get...why don't have such companies enough download servers???

Just completed the download (took just over 1 hour). Installed it. Looks the same as Poser 6. Going to work now, no moretime to play.

Good luck to all downloading at the moment. When I got the mail (some 11 hours ago) it simply wasn't possible to even get to the site but now I had no problems.

If you don't get a reasonable speed all I can suggest is, break the connection and try again, at least one of the servers is working.

The "good luck" seems to work - now I'm able to log in and started downloading (5.20 hours to go but I'm sure this will need a bit more time in the end...).

I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!

And I am not strange, I am Limited Edition!

Are you ready for Antonia? Get her textures here:

The Home Of The Living Dolls

I'll be happy just to get my download link. It was too much to hope to get it, you know, on the day it was supposed to be released. :crying:

They did have some server problems, which cost them processing all of the downloads today like they planned. But it's all fixed. I was at work when they went live, and discovered that I hadn't been activated yet. When I went to the forums after 11 pm CST, CP-Scarlet (Tori) was still there and processed anyone who was logged in in front of the queue.

It's been a steady 203 kb/sec since. Now at 70% of the main app.

The rest of the PC DL's will be processed in the morning. I think the November thru December orders are next. If you ordered before that and still haven't been activated, open a ticket. Or if you see Tori in the forums, PM her. She was still there a few minutes ago but said she was definately leaving for home ;)

Sometimes they do work really hard for us :)

-- Jeff

Hi just finished my download no problems at all.

Wow! What a download. I had to hook up 12 extra hamsters on their exercise wheels to boost enough power to finish it.:ohmy: Now my only problem is finding a way to save the zip to a cd(I don't have a dvd writer just a dvd player.) Iwould hate to lose the zip due to computer error.

YES!! I've just got back from walking the dog to find my email from e-frontier. I'm finally downloading. Fingers & everything else crossed!

Crapped out at 10.4% Gigaget is trying to resume, but it looks like the server wants to start from the beginning...

20 minutes later...much more stable now. Just passed 11% and climbing fast!

I'd rather stay in my lane than lay in my stain!

I finally was able to finish the content pack, too :) No interruption in DL at all. A steady 200+ kb/sec. I began about 11:30, and it's just after 2:30 CST.

Off to install! A long night ahead :)

-- Jeff

So, from the sound of it, I'm the only person whose link number 1 wasn't a link at all? I'm downloading the content pack now, and I can see my serial number, but it's not much use without the proggy :(

Yaay! I recived my e-mail and I'm downloading now (figers crossed that it will finish smoothly.) I'm in the same time zone as they are (California, right?) and it's 1:15am here. Someone was working late to get me this e-mail this evening. I sure hope they are going to have a good Christmas party for their employees!

Wish me luck!

Aha.....went to CP and it's there in my downloads. Weird about that email link though.

Try again Greebo, I found Internet Explorer tried to block my download (link 1) on my first try. Second one was the charm, though.

I got mine just a bit ago and am steadily downloading at about 294kb/sec. Not too shabby.

21% & all is well. I feel like pacing up & down the room until it's done, but I'd only wear away the carpet!

I got my mail as well, I guess the web server is maxed out, I'm not even getting past "Getting File Information" ... Good thing I am a night shifter :)

My Freebies

Hmm, I guess the link in the notification email is no good, because after sniffing around in some of the threads on this I found that most people are doing their download from My Stuff off of ContentParadise - that worked fine, 100MB in ... 1.8GB to go....

Good time to watch that Vue training video I guess...
edit: about 630k/sec, seems like they did bandwidth right :)

My Freebies

Hmm. That's odd. Mine worked just fine. Are you using IE or Firefox? I'm using Firefox and had no issues. I saw some other say they had some issues with IE.

The email link worked fine for me, I'm using IE. My download speed is around 90K/sec. I would have wanted it faster but I don't want to break the link now, I'm at 49%.

I am at around the same point & download speed too :0/

Patience! LOL

:0)

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In faecorum semper, solum profundum variat.

Contentfile is downloaded. But the application file stopped the second time after approx. 200 megs of data.... Arghhhh.... Hope this time is my lucky hour

I'm done (D/L speed was very consistent at about 270Kb/s) , zips check as OK, so burning to DVD.

Download completed, installed and now ready to play. Whee! Good luck, ya'll.

It may have been because I got the automatic update for newer version of IE, which broke many things e.g. 3ds Max demo would not install, and which I uninstalled. I don't think the uninstall rolled back to the last version 100%. I'm not too worried about it, I got it downloaded and the installer is running now... plus I have a complete hardware and OS and whatnot upgrade coming in a few weeks, so it's all really just sandbox right now anyway.

My Freebies

Well I'm downloading at a lightning fast 11 KB/s with a mere 42 hours to go. That seems to be the best I can get, an earlier attempt dropped the speed to around 4 KB/s and said it would take 144 hours! I really hope it doesn't drop the link, there's a limit to how much I can download per month (3GB) and if I exceed it I'll have to wait till next month. The joys of technology in the 3rd world :-(

Yowch, you must be getting routed through a narrow bandwidth pipe somewhere. Not a lot you can do about that from your end, that sucks.
(not a lot as in, nothing :( )

My Freebies

pjz99 - Are you nearly downloaded yet, I noticed you had a good speed?
Download now at 74%.

Mine is at 80%

So far so good! ;0)

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Life is a beta.

In faecorum semper, solum profundum variat.

I wonder if you can zip the file as a split zip so you can fit it on cd to back it up? Just a thought until you can get a dvd burner. I grabbed one at Sams club was really inexpensive.

Got mine downloaded and have had a few hours sleep.
Now I will install and see what it is all about.

ok got my Poser 7, G2 Males pack and Passport CD v1

feels almost dishonest LOL

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I could cry, my system froze with my download at 80%. I have to start all over again.
A download of this size without resume is a complete joke!

I was done hours ago actually, I'm installing all the content that I know I will want to use, props and junk.

http://www.getright.com/

get the freebie version to help you get through this. I'm sorry you had problems, that really sucks :(

My Freebies

Quote - I wonder if you can zip the file as a split zip so you can fit it on cd to back it up? Just a thought until you can get a dvd burner. I grabbed one at Sams club was really inexpensive.

Yes:
http://www.winzip.com/wzdsplit.htm

My Freebies

pjz99 - I was using getright, but it couldn't give me a resume because the server wasn't supporting it!
I am gutted, absolutely gutted. I was so looking forward to having a go this afternoon.

Oh that is really unfortunate :( Hang in there!

My Freebies

Yes, hang in there stormchaser!
I kept at it until 6 am this morning. Had to start over and over but finally it got it all.

Oh I'm sorry...

That is really frustrating for you, Stormchaser...... :0(

Deep breath and go again when you have regained enough patience!

Klutz. :0/

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Life is a beta.

In faecorum semper, solum profundum variat.

Thanks fellow poser addicts.
I've calmed down now & restarted. If it happens again I'm jumping in the canal!

...still 5 minutes to go so I'm keeping my fingers crossed, It took me about 7 hours to download inspite of my DSL-connection. I don't understand why they didn't break it up in some smaller pieces, so you wouldn't have start all over again...

Okay 1,5 minutes to go... wait a little longer before posting.

Phew! yeah I got it.. now first storing it in a safe place and the "fun" (or not) can start.

-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?

Well I started DL Poser 7 at 6am at 800 KB/s when it got up to 70 percent and then the server stopped responding. I had to start all over again cause my DL manager says the server doesn't support the resuming of DLs. I don't get that. But I'll manage some how.

Adrian

OH man now I'm PO!!!!!!!! It got up to 88 percent and the server didn't respond and my download manager just restarted the DL over again from 0 percent. Does anyone know of a free DL manager that allows for resuming of broken DLs. I'm about to E Mail EF a very nasty letter!!!!!!!

Adrian

They had to turn off the resume download since that was one of the reason the server got bogged down. (According to thread at CP)

Tiny
You got to be kidding. So what happens when the server stops responding and then it has to re-start the DL? EF is a JOKE!! Sorry to be such a pain in the butt, but this is really bad.
Adrian

Circumvent, I know just how you feel. As the rest of us - take a deep breath and calm down a bit.
I was very frustrated when the DL first broke with Firefox then (with 3 minutes left) with IE, then jumped back and forth resuming with GetRight. But when they settled the server handeling one download/one link my DL stayed steady with GetRight (approx 150-250Kb/sec) - one channel, no resume.
So get your armour shining, mount your horse and go at it again! You will succeed.

Not much to be done here. For the sake of it, I started to download the app last night. The first attempt retrieved a whopping 8.7MB before quitting. I restarted just before going to bed. It did better, but no cigar (840MB). Looks like I'll just start the download each night and it'll either be Xmas presents under the tree or a lump o' coal in the stocking until things settle. :)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

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Well, it is now 10 hours since I started my first download & I'm about to make my third attempt. I don't know how far I got this time as I've been asleep. When I woke up I thought "YES, it's done" but alas it seems the server was down again.
I am now more despondent than angry. This really is not on.

They really could have split this damn file up, I'm now getting less than 50 KB/sec, I'll be here forever!
I really feel like making a complaint, but I know this would be a waste of time.

The bad thing is that they didn't split the file into smaler portions methinks.

I was in luck, when I came home from work, Poser 7 was waiting for me on my desktop, and I just downloaded the content package with no problems (and a speed at around 150Kb/s)

I'm on cable btw, 1½MBit (strange speed I know, the line is officially 1MBit, then 50% extra for "loyal Customers")

Oh and I used Firefox. Not Flashget or any other download managers. Perhaps I was just lucky, but that wouldn't be like me LOL

I'll tell you that if you were a Passport member (I'm not), you could complain in the forum and maybe get a response.

When V4 was released, a couple of us complained to DAZ in the forums about the 500 Internal Server Error while trying to download. Instead of shrugging us off, they shut down the download servers and restarted them a little later with much better results for all.

My feeling is that a well-constructed download server setup (esp. for the volumes these guys deal with) should queue up requests and take as many as can be handled simultaneously and focus on finishing that set before starting others. And it should never just stop an ongoing download just because 10,000 new requests were made - that is stupid. Maybe it's time for businesses to consider a different strategy (like Adobe, iirc) where there are two stages - queue and download. Keeping requests to download and actual downloads separate should terminate these types of problems (requests flood server causing downloads to falter and fail).

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

Contact Me | Kuroyume's DevelopmentZone

Well said kuroyume0161. They really should have planned this better.

Thank you , stormchaser.

And to make the point, I still can't get it all downloaded. Only got to about 34% before it was like "Download done!" - yay - well, except that it was missing about 1.2GB! Arghhh...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

Contact Me | Kuroyume's DevelopmentZone

It would be interesting to see what their final bandwidth bill ran compaired to how many gigs worth of P7 they actually sold. With all these stalled downloads it sounds like they will waste a lot of money on bandwidth because people have to download the same bits multiple times. If that's the case splitting the file up would have saved more than their user's minds.

Just got my e-mail and none of the links work just goes to an error page , guess e-frontier are taking lessons from e-on . Any one with the same problem got straight to Content Paradise and download from there . Slow download another 7 hours to go ! Should be done when I wake up for work tomorrow ( I hope ) . Let the fun begin .

Does anyone know how far along they are regarding preorder date?

I received my notice yesterday and started my download last night. Got 18% and it stopped. So I went to bed and restarted this morning when I got up. Took 12 hours for the biggest one and I'm on DSL. The other file will have to wait a bit so i can do other things before I go to bed tonight.

Let me introduce you to my multiple personalities. :)
BluEcho...Faery_Light...Faery_Souls.

I'd have to agree that they should have allowed for all types of internet connections and arranged to have the files split enough for downloading. I did get mine(downloaded at 934kb/sec) though I do have high speed connection, but I can still remember the frustration at trying to download even a 2meg file on dial-up. So at a whopping 1.69GB(not including the other 200meg content file)it seems almost insane to have it set up like they do.

Finally, finally, after countless hours of trying & torment I have Poser 7. I never want to go through that sh!te again!
Good luck for those still trying.

I know what you went through Storm! I downloaded P7 yesterday and it took over 8 hours.....thankfully the servers didn't go down, etc. but I downloaded the whole thing at 55.6 kb/sec and it was a bit tense not knowing if I'd have to start all over if the servers hiccuped! Kinda irritating...but at least I have it now and it all installed ok. More server bandwidth might have been useful!

sandman_dreaming - That feeling when I lost my download at 80% was just terrible. I can laugh about it now though....not!

Downloading since yesterday. The mainfile crashes the last time after 1.3 Gigs. Arghhhhh..... New attempt on 50%. Will I ever work with Poser 7...?

oliveramberg - hang in there mate!!

I got to 84% (1.4 GB) and then it stopped. *#$%^&!!!

**Nice going EF/CP, really great! If they had stated on the purchase form that the download was a single 1.7GB file with no option of a restart I whould have opted for the box.

Now I have to wait intill next month to try again when my bandwidth cap resets. Maybe by then they'll have figured out a few things: like allowing restarts is a good thing (that's the whole point of restarts, DUH!), and that breaking the file into smaller pieces means less bandwidth wasted if you're not smart enough to allow restarts. You'd think it was rocket science...

I agree with whoopy, I reckon on average people must have downloaded about 150% to get the 100% they needed. I hope EF/CP got burned bad.

obm890 - So sorry to hear about that mate, this really sucks. EF will have to sort this out for future products.

I finally was able to DL and I did need to calm down and everything is all better now. The world is turning normally now for me. Thanks Tiny for showing me the way :tt2:

Adrian

Krazik has been working on the server issue from the begining. They had to make a choice between Shutting down the resume function, or No downloads at all.

I got my download completed in about an hour running Comcast Cable with no interruptions around 12am on 12/12.

Mine crashed at 85%. For the fifth time.

Why, or why does to server not support resume function?

Thank God I bought the extended download period as well... Jeez.

Managed to download overnight but only after a couple of false attempts.

However, the merest look at the zip file indicates that the bulk of the file is the 1.7gb installer. This begs the question....why?

Drat! Almost had it last night! It looks to have gotten to 1.69GB before dropping this time. That's 98%. Another day, another lump o' coal... :cursing:

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

Contact Me | Kuroyume's DevelopmentZone

Anyone having major problems downloading the second Content file that comes with Poser 7? This is about 209Mb, but my download always seems to end prematurely at about 140Mb...when I try to check the zip file it obviously comes up as corrupt, etc. as it is incomplete. Having downloaded the main Poser 7 file yesterday I'm wondering why this much smaller file is causing such a problem!

Actually, after several failed attempts at the App file, I downloaded the Content file. Got it in two attempts - about 30 minutes for that one. The App file is just too big to do while I'm on the computer - about 5-6 hours download. Will continue to start at night and see the results in the morning.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

Contact Me | Kuroyume's DevelopmentZone

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