I'm having a lot of trouble getting a 10 second animation done on Poser as Poser keeps on freezing at random frames (it's never the same frame) I've let it go for a whole day and it still will not get past that one frame. I'm using Poser 4 hair and Poser 5 conforming clothing so it doesn't need to calculate the dynamics of it and I have disabled shadows. My system specs are: Pentium 4 2.53 gHz 533 mHz FSB 768 MB RAM Windows XP Home Edition (doubt this is important but...) GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB PCI Please help!!!

It might be time to try rendering as an image sequence, rather than AVI. Poser will probably still hang at some point, but you'll have every frame up to that point completed, and you can continue rendering from that frame later.

VirtualDub and other video editing applications can load image sequences and save them as AVI files.

You probably need a utility that will defrag your RAM on the fly. Lots out there, some are free.

Same problem the rest of us have with animations. Poser 5 has poor memory management. Hopefully it is the reason why it is taking the CL/EGISys programmers so long to get SR3 completed.

Speaking of SR3, has anyone heard anything about it? I've been gone for a week...

If you have a light with the shadow set to zero or very small it won't render. Also another good reason to use image files is that Win Media Player doesn't recognize them. I use to have the problem with bigger anims, Win Media Would try to auto run and choke, and I'd loose the render..

OK, I did the rest of my animations as an image sequence but I guess now I should search download.com for that big,juicy RAM defrag utility so that I can use it next time. Thanks for your help!

There is a reported memory leak of about 4 MB lost per frame, and my own observations seem to confirm this. If you are rendering a 10 second animation in 300 frames, you will lose 1,200MB memory (1.2 GB) during the process. Therefore, if you're starting with more than an 800 MB rendering footprint, this will push the memory use over the addressable 32 bit 2GB limit and Poser will crash. Bill

That is just sad. I thought I was losing my mind. I render to TIFs ALL the time now (instead of just sometimes) when doing animations over a few seconds. Unfortunately, as someone else said, it still crashes, but at least I have the frames. What a PITA! SR3 didn't fix it for me, how about anyone else? Also, what does the RAM defragger really do and will it definitely help? Any negative side-effects of running it? Thanks! -Tim

PS> And often the last frames consist of tiny repeating squares of the entire image. Anyone else ever seen this?