davo opened this issue on Mar 30, 2020 ยท 9 posts
davo posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 5:09 PM
Do I need to uninstall my current poser pro 11.2 to install the 11.3 or does 11.3 just overwrite certain files?
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hborre posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 5:19 PM
The installer will do that for you. No need to manually uninstaller 11.2.
hornet3d posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 5:57 PM
Yep, my update recognised I already had a version installed, suggested I should uninstall it and ask my if I wanted to uninstall. Ticked yes and the update went away and did it then continued with the new install. At the end is asked for a system restart which I did. Bit nervous when I relaunched as I ticked to tell it to use existing preferences but I needn't have worried it loaded with my preferred scene and all my libraries were there.
Need to have more of a play but it looks good so far. The only problem I have found is that, under the purchases tab in the library (which i like a lot), you can click to have content installed. The content I have tried so far has failed with the message Unzip failed, not valid Poser content. It then gives me the option to reinstall or manually install, not a major issue for me as I always manually install anyway.
I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 - Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU . The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.
nerd posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 7:06 PM Forum Moderator
Poser 11.3 is a full install. You should but probably don't have to uninstall the old version. If you do uninstall your content is save. Nothing you've download will be removed. Install it in the same place as your current version. You can retain your existing preferences as well. This is now the default action in the windows installer. Mac users should backup their preferences first.
Installing Queue Manager is only needed for render boxes that don't have Poser installed. The Queue is installed with the base poser install. You don't need to install it twice.
Habatchii posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 7:26 PM
Is there a readme file or installation configuration documentation?
uncle808us posted Mon, 30 March 2020 at 9:52 PM
Habatchii posted at 10:52PM Mon, 30 March 2020 - #4384895
Is there a readme file or installation configuration documentation? I too would like to know this.
MacBook Pro OSX El Capitan Ver 10.11.6
Minyassa posted Thu, 07 May 2020 at 5:06 AM
Is this going to work with Win7? Last time I updated, it assumed a Win10 format for my preferences and so they did not apply.
hborre posted Thu, 07 May 2020 at 10:03 AM
There is no difference between Win 7 and 10 format. If you have a particular preference setup, you must follow an alternate installation method, not blindly accept the default settings. Through the countless uninstallations and re-installations, I have noticed that the installers on my computer remember my custom preferences so I can quickly check and breeze through my installation.
Minyassa posted Thu, 07 May 2020 at 12:48 PM
If there's no difference then I don't know why it created an entirely new folder to stick my preference files into and didn't put them back into my program. I'm familiar with custom installation and checked the appropriate options to save my configuration, and it completely ignored that. Perhaps it was because I'm not installing to my C drive, then. For whatever reason, it did not save my preferences and it even didn't give me the default rendering presets, I had to put everything in manually.