Earlier tonight I installed DAZ Studio 1.7 to make my stuff more Studio compatible. Well since then Poser 7 has not been able to launch. I even uninstalled Poser and Studio and reinstalled Poser, still no good. It looks like I will ahve to wipe the drive to get Poser to work again. So be warned if yolu are using Poser 7 (Poser 5 still works on my computer, not sure if 6 would) do not install the latest version of DAZ Studio!!! I have spent the past 5 hours trying to recover and nothing has worked.

Okay... 1) Mac or PC? 2) XP or Vista (if PC)? 3) Contact DAZ about it? I ask all of this because, well... They don't even touch common libraries or DLL files (D|S uses Qt for its UI, doesn't use Python, and nobody (that I know of) modifies OpenGL's stuff. The only common points are the Poser files themselves, which are read, not written to by D|S. So, umm, whadda? /P

I don't see why you have to reformat to fix this.. just remove poser 7 from your drive, (remembering to clear out anything under the 'Documents and Settings' that may be hiding there) and reinstall. reformating should be a last resort.

and I offer this pic as proof they can and do co-exist fine :

Windows XP Personal edition.
Both DAZ Studio 1.7 and Poser 7 installed.
Both programs work fine.
Don't know what happened with your install, but
nothing bad happened in mine, and I have the entire Poser 7 and Poser 6 
libraries at DAZ Studio's disposal.

Greywolf

(the pic shows both running at the same time on Dual monitor setup)

Using XP on the PC Had no problems with it on my MAac sorry ment to mention that. It does install C++ items into windows and I suspect that is where the problem lies.

I just checked this (I installed the new Daz Studio last night).
I opened P7, then closed it, then opened D|S, loaded a scene, closed it, then opened P7 again, and repeated the sequence 3 times.
In every case P7 loaded the same way as it always has, so whatever the problem is, it's not a compatibility problem with the new version of D|S

Quote - Using XP on the PC Had no problems with it on my MAac sorry ment to mention that. It does install C++ items into windows and I suspect that is where the problem lies.

nope.. P7 is not affected by those runtime installs.

PS I already removed and reinstalled poser. I was using it befroe I installed Studio  and it was woring fine. I installed Studio because i wanted to convert some of my content to be more studio compatible. After I installed it and tryed to relaunce poser it kept crashing during boot up. That was 5 hours ago, in that time I have tried everthing i could think of including removing the C++ stuff.

OH I am glad to hear it isn't happening to everyone...just my luck it would happen to me though.

Khai,

Just on a personal note...is the studio worth installing?

I run DAZ Studio, Poser 7, ZB3, PSCS2 and all sorts of other high end and low end graphics programs.  I've been using Studio since back in the beta days.  There has never been an issue between those two programs, at least on my system.

Thanks for replying Ramwolf....compatability was not my intended question.

I am asking is this program worthy???

Regards

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Reformatting is taking a sledgehammer to a walnut.

Like many others I don't have problems running daz and poser together (although I'm not sure which daz version at the minute).

If you do have problems, I'd advise getting hold of a registry mechanic software program such a norton windoctor, registry mechanic etc, which can solve a hell of a lot of problems with software.

I don't think people realise how many problems there are with files not registering properly or wandering off on their own.  Even on a clean install of XP I would expect at least 50 problems - I've come across over 700 on some simple setups!

Ya seems to be just me, after 8 hours of messing with the PC I still can't get poser to work anymore. I've even uninstalled all the 3D stuff and reinstall just poser to no avail. As far as Studio goes I was very impressed by the new 1.7, it is a giant leap from the earlier versions.

They are both working fine on my system as well (AMD PC running XP Media Center)
You may want to consider doing a system restore to back to a point when Poser 7 was still working.

Although System restore is active and set to use max space for restore points It tells me none are valid. So my proble could be larger then it looks, though only poser is not working right (not counting the restore problem) and it only stopped working right after I installed DAZ Studio, very odd to say the least. Atleast it is good to hear that nobody else seems to be having the probem, becaue it is by far the best version os studio ever. i have been recoomending it to most everyone. I have it on my mac too and it is runnig great. It is looking like it was just bad timing that I was using Poser with no problems, stopped and installed Studio (so I could convert some files to studio) and then went to go back to Poser and it would not start anymore, it just crashes when you try to open it.

ok.. you do have some serious problems there.. I'd run through the usual checklist :

Antivirus Scan
Spyware Scan

then run a diskcheck and make sure everythings ok there.
with youe system saying that the restore points are not valid, it makes me think you've ethier picked something nasty up or you've got a disk problem that needs correcting.

System restore has NEVER worked for me or my friend that lives below me.  Seems a shame when you  really need a way to go back there doesn't seem to be one!!  Real sorry to hear that nothings resolving this for you! :sad:

I have Win Xp SR2. Both P6 and P7 work fine with the new Daz Studio. try running a virus, spybot and adware scanners. A file might also be corrupted. save your runtime, then reinstall Poser 7.

Hi there , before ya do anything drastic , have a look in the admin logs for applications and system.
Assuming you are on win xp its at

start > control panel > administrative tools > event viewer > application

hopefully that caught the error that stopped Poser from starting.

Double click on the item to get a bit more detail.

You can copy and paste from that display but use ctl_c copy ctl_v paste

I've used System restore, which worked, but didn't fix anything (it can happen..;)

Daz Studio is sort of 'bundled' to work with Bryce 5.5 (not a 'make art' button, but a button that launches D|S, let you pose characters, etc., then export it into Bryce). And it works in Windows 2000, which is a plus in my book. Will probably use it rarely, but I can't resist the price..;)

You might also want to go out and download "CCleaner" and/or "EasyCleaner", which are freeware registry cleaning tools that will go in and root out any FUBAR entries that might be preventing your install of Poser from starting.  All it takes is one wayward registry entry to take what used to be a working program and turn in into a virtual potato. 

And yes- I had Posr 7 and D/S installed and had also uninstalled the latter, with no ill effects.  And I had uninstalled D/S mostly because I couldn't stand the interface.  The one used in Poser isn't the best at times either, but DAZ took a step backward with their GUI as of late.