Hi

Been away from the land of Poser for about a year, and when I come back I have some serious issues to get it working properly.

My computer is a AMD athlon dualcore  3800+  (2ghz) with 2g ram, quite a bit of free HD space and a Gainward GeForce 8600GTS 512MB with Windows XP pro (SP2)

It doesn't always hang.. Yesterday I worked with it the whole day off and on and no problems..

The day before it was like this too..  Start it up.. load a figure.. then it stops responding...  I've tried it with loading different figures but it doesn't seem to matter which one I load..  sometimes I'm lucky and get to apply a texture before it becomes unresponsive.. and again the same thing today ..  it doesn't seem to matter to reboot computer either..

I find it weird that it isn't consistant..   Day 1 = Problems, Day 2 =Works fine, Day 3 = Problems again..

I'm getting a new comp next week with Vista, now the question is if that fixes it, or perhaps brings even more issues (I'm guessing the latter)

How is Poser7?
Is it worth upgrading even if I only do quick basic renders w no special effects or fancy stuff? I always do quite a bit of postwork and dishing out a whole bunch of cash for new fancy features that I won't use anyway seems abit like a waste..

It's so irritating.. I just wanna get back into it but it won't seem to let me :(

Any help would be much appreciated!

-Jen

Don't know what your problem is, usually deleting the Prefs and redoing them makes most weird stuff go away!! You might try that!!

And I've been using Poser 6 and 7 with Vista Ultimate 64 for 12 Months with no problems at all, you need to remember Vista has a whole new way of doing things and it's more important then ever before, to set it up properly or you will have issues!!!

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Hi

Been away from the land of Poser for about a year, and when I come back I have some serious issues to get it working properly.

Ok, couple of quick tips to help stablize Poser, I know these may sound a bit strange but they are very effective.

First, put as much as you can in external runtimes.  The only thing in my default Poser runtime is what Poser installed there by default and what absolutely has to be there (like V4).  Other than that nothing else gets put in my default Poser runtime.  The larger your default Poser runtime is, the more memory Poser eats on startup, and the less efficiently it runs.  Eat enough memory and it can cause lock ups, hangs, and all sorts of problems.  Poser never releases this memory, even if you switch to an external runtime after startup, so your best bet is to move everything you can out of Posers default runtime and leave it as small as possible.

Second, again this will sound strange, but if your running windows schedule a disk check and then regularly (at least once a week) defragment your harddrive.  Poser eats a lot of memory, and under the Windows operating system it creates a "swap" file on the drive for "virtual memory".  This file, like most, gets fragmented pretty easily and most programs don't seem to mind that too much, but Poser is very, very finicky about it.  A fragmented hard drive will cause Poser to slow down tremendously, become very unstable and crash, particularly on render.

So your best bet is to schedule a disk check and make sure you don't have any indexing problems on the drive, then defragment it.  Believe it or not this will make Poser run far more stable than it ever has before.  It's just an odd fix, because most other programs don't suffer this instability problem, but Poser does.

Just a couple of quick tips, hope that helps.

I had recent hanging problems when starting scenes that previously worked fine.
I turned Display - Preview Drawing to SreeD Software, rather than OpenGL and things worked normally.
Just a guess.

I have the same problem, and I use Poser 6 fairly often. It worked great yesterday and today, nada! Freezes up after Iopen a PZZ file, then try to do anything else. Sometimes the curser disappears, sometimes the window goes gray. Either way, I can do nothing but close it down.

I got it running fairly okay for a couple weeks by doing a clean boot before opening it, but now that doesn't work either. It's ALWAYS slow though, even when it works, and I've gotten app hang errors before.

I am in the middle of an important project. Have tried restarting my PC several times today with no luck.
I keep my PC running efficiently and my drive rarely gets much, if any fragmentation. I added more memory and a 8800Gt Nvidia card (I have a similar system). I have tried deleting preferances with no effect.

Any suggestions???

I could offer a last resort one: This is one I've used before but I don't have this problem you speak of!

Save your Runtime folder to a temp file seperate from Poser, Uninstall Poser completely, and I mean completely, it always leaves folders when you uninstall so get rid of them all!!
Then do a clean re-install, delete the runtime from the clean install and replace it with the one you saved. I did this a couple of years back with back ups when a HD fried. I used my backed up runtime to put everything back, this method worked fine for me and I know a couple of others on here have done this also.