Poser Pro 2014 install issue
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Setting up a new PC. Have a DVD copy of Poser Pro 2014 which I purchased a few years ago.
I have been through the entire install process 4 times and cannot get the program to run.
It installs fine. No errors. 64 bit only install. When I double click the program icon
the splash screen appears for about 20 seconds, and then disapperars, and nothing
No errors, just won't run ????? Can anyone help???
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There is a thread elsewhere suggesting Poser 2014 has difficulties running under Windows 10. Some ideas otherwise:
1. Reboot PC and try again.
2. Apply all update patches.
3. Run in Windows 7 compatability mode, if that's possible on Windows 10.
4. Run as Administrator.
5. Apparently "adequate read/write permissions to necessary directories, which is often a problem with many programs in Win10". No idea how to fix that one, as I was never part of the Win10 nightmare.
SR4 for Poser Pro 2014 can be downloaded from the link in this thread:
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2949609#msg4394414
I presume it is regular PP2014 and not the Game Dev version? The latter requres online activation from Smith Micro's servers, which is of course no longer possible. However, the PP Game Dev serial will work to activate Poser 11 ...
I slightly recall possibly having an issue after installing Poser 2014 on win 10 some years back. (hoping my memories are not getting corrupted though) and I think for me it only started working after completely shutting down the PC and booting it up again. like even restart wasn't enough. Its been a while. pp2014 is still working great on my computer even in 2024.
EDIT: Ahh. i didn't see the date. this thread is a bit old. haha
In 2025, it seems my serial numbers no longer work for Poser 2014. Has anyone else run into this issue? They are legitimate serials, but they all throw errors now.
Poser Pro (7) still works with flying colors though. Its sad to see the peak versions just fade away into the abyss to this nonsense.
Isn't PP2014 the one which needs to phone home regularly? If so the problem is probably that the servers it needed to contact don't exist anymore.
Got to the bottom of it. There are 2 versions. The main serial still worked with no phone home. The "Game Dev" version which has FBX support no longer works because that one does contact the server. I accidentally used the wrong one. It is indeed pretty lame they did it this way though. As far as I know the full functionality is there and installed, but is now forever blocked because of this.
Just to add, for the benefit of future searchers. In 2025 I'm finishing up installing Windows 11 Superlite and installing old software. I find Poser Pro 2014 is running fine on Windows 11, including the Adobe AIR library (which it seems does not actually need the main AIR runtime installed, so it must be self-contained). A user can still drag-and-drop from the PP 2014 AIR library to Poser 11, 12, 13, but regrettably the Library can only launch along with PP 2014 - not on its own. Now that PZDB is dead on Windows 11, the fast external Library choices are: 1) PP 2014 AIR; or 2) Poser 11 and ShaderWorks Library Manager 2 and AVScript fix.