Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Poser 6 Wine CHOOSEPIXELFORMAT error

notadev255 opened this issue on Aug 15, 2024 ยท 5 posts


notadev255 posted Thu, 15 August 2024 at 1:29 PM

Hello everyone,

I'm a little new, literally just created this profile to ask for assistance since I am losing my mind trying to figure out this issue. If anyone could please assist, or at least guide me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

I purchased Poser 6 physical disc and was playing around with it for the past week. Now, I am getting an error message when it is attempting to open up.

Things I've done:

1.) ran sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade on system, something I do every week never had an issue yet

2.) removed winehq-devel and instead installed wine-stable

3.) verified that mesa-utils and intel graphics drivers are up-to-date

4.) found an adjacent fix (the only thing regarding the error message when running a google search) about sketchup7, but I do not see Poser 6 or Curious Lab in .wine/drive_c/Windows/regedit.exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\

Has anyone had opengl issues like this before and can help with what I'm missing? Thank you much in advance.


notadev255 posted Thu, 15 August 2024 at 1:39 PM

~$ glxinfo|grep "OpenGL version"

OpenGL version string: 4.2 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2

~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

xserver-xorg-video-intel is already the newest version (2:2.99.917+git20210115-1).


I had also uninstalled and re-installed Poser 6 from disc, figuring it might be an issue with a setting I may have changed or config pointer. Still getting error on fresh install.


notadev255 posted Mon, 26 August 2024 at 12:43 AM

Update: I swapped drives and installed a fresh OS (Xubuntu LTd) and winehq-devel. Still receiving this error. Is anyone available to guide me in the right direction? Thank you.


RedPhantom posted Mon, 26 August 2024 at 7:23 AM Site Admin

Sorry, I no longer have Poser 6 and I'm not even sure what OS that is.


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tim posted Mon, 26 August 2024 at 10:21 AM Site Admin

Best chance at a solution on that is probably to open a support ticket at https://support.posersoftware.com.

Even then, it is a very old version of Poser running on Windows emulation on Linux/Ubuntu, so not sure what's possible.