Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: HELP! After reinstalling XP, Poser won't even open!

pzrite opened this issue on Feb 19, 2007 · 5 posts


pzrite posted Mon, 19 February 2007 at 11:43 AM

I tried Windows Vista and realized that it seriously slowed down all my 3D apps, so I ditched it and reinstalled Windows XP.  After a days worth of reinstalling programs, everything works EXCEPT for Poser!!!   I reinstalled Poser 7 three times and everytime I try to open it, I get the Windows error message "Program needs to close - Error".
Poser will get about 20 seconds into the startup screen and then crash.  I also had Poser 5 and 6 installed and they all do the same exact thing!   I really can't figure this one out.

Some clues as to what is happening:  Poser did initially run after I reinstalled, but when I tried to open some existing files I would have to manually search the runtimes for files because the Drive Letter changed after the reinstall of Windows.   Then when I tried to resave a Poser file, the file would end up being BLANK, with a file size of zero!  

So then I tried using Dimension3D's Runtime Repair (which seemed to be repairing the path references) and that's when Poser completely stopped working!
I'm not saying that Runtime Repair is the problem, I think it just might have made worse an existing situation.

Thanks for any help!!!!