Does anyone running poser 5 have stable software? Mine crashes and lockes up all the time. . .

Mine's stable on Win2k. Just a bit slow is all.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm - is it XP?

I dont run P5 but giving your machine more virtual memory to use might solve the problem.

Mine is stable since I installed Service Release 2.1. Before that it crashed all the time particularly when I used large texture maps.

I have a few problems, but not like some. I had just as many with P4.

Poser5, XP Home, AMD XP 1700 w/768mb ram. Stable, I don't do animations. I save often and to diferent files when I do save until a project is done, save1 save2 etc. No major crashes or hanging up here though it does get squirrley after a long use and I just close poser5 and restart it, then it seems better. SR2.1 here.

It's holding together reasonably well on my system now. It had a tendency to lock up when using the Movie node, but I devised a workaround.

On a related note, I had a good day with Poser 4 this morning ... managed to render almost 390 frames of animation in one batch before it succumbed to the memory leaks.

I'm running P5 with WinME. I've had P5 since the beginning. Although I had lots of problems originally, it runs fine now that I've installed all the updates. The only problem I have is when it can't find an obj or texture map when loading something. Even then, it doesn't lock, it just takes forever.

only had it for about 2 weeks, clean instal with patches before running it for the 1st time and only one render problem, using it every day for a couple of hours, every room, every render type. AMD 1gig duron 512 RAM

Don't want to brag but Poser5 with XP Home on 2.0Ghz Pentium4 with 1Gb Ram, no lockups no crashes, only minor problems with the unpatched version (reflections & shadows) & the one legged Irish cyclist who got lost in Russia (old joke).

Is fine unless running multiple apps too much. If P5 or P4 is Processing & I switch to other task- frequently locks.

I notice that Poser 5 is slow when running any other app. If only running P5, it's fine. And since installing SR 2.1 yesterday, it actually runs faster. I'm on Win2k. The new atmospheric and depth options in the renderer are very cool...

Have you installed latest patch? Are you migrating from Poser4? If so, you need to optimize your library-texture links with CorrectReference ... this is a big part of lockups for those who have migrated.

I am also using XP Pro, also my start up doesn't load the p5man so it starts up about as fast as #4 does.

5 months no crashes, lock-ups or anything else... except for my #%!%&@^ hard drive blew

I had big problems with XP Home, freezes, lockups everytime-- tried all of the above fixes. What worked for me was to take everything out of my Poser 5 runtime, except V3's basic morphs and general pose files-- who, I must admit, will occassionally still give me a freeze or two if I don't pare her morphs down. I now have 4 auxiliary runtimes. 1. V3 characters and clothing, 2. Natalia/Dcort stuff, 3. Download Runtime with everything I've bought since I started Poser 5, and 4. Everything I bought pre-Poser 5. For the most part now, I have very clear un-frozen pleasant Poser 5 worktimes. The few times I have had the least bit of a freeze-- always on the render-- I have not dicked aroung but simply closed Poser, rebooted my machine and started over, that has fixed it so far. Things I don't do: Lots of work in the hair room-- i use pre-made dynamic hair and just fiddle a bit with length and curliness. I do NO work in the Face room or Clothing room. I do no animation. My machine is a Dell, with the problematic NVidia card-- never got any different drivers. I have 2.4G processor. 2Gigs of memory and Poser 5 is on the C drive. I used Correct Reference until it started moving some stuff around from one character to another, and then I stopped-- never run it on all my libraries. I rarely defrag, XP says I don't need it, and I trust that. Poser 5 was a clean install with all the patches at once. Oh, and I almost always use FireFly renders-- no draft, that seems just as long to me, waste of time. Raytracing only, no texture filtering. If I could just get over my hand sprain I could finally have some fun-- Poser 5 is working like a dream. Another note-- I don't strain the program-- so far have used only multiple people with lower res mesh than Vicki 3. Vicki 3 taxes Poser 5 to it's limits and you must be careful running her. Trying to work with a fully loaded Vicki 3 is asking for trouble. Trying to work with only the head morphs fully loaded is Still asking for trouble-- her head morphs are the major pull on memory. Emily