Its worse than it sounds. Poser 4 crashed on me over a week ago. Since that time whenever I try to launch POSer, the screen will clear, I get the POSER menu and then the computor crashes or locks. I don't even get as far as the flying trapeze lady. I am running a 166 PC with 196 meg and am not having trouble with anyother program. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, no difference. I've reinstalled to another drive with no difference I'm lost! I've also checked my system with Norton System checks and it tells me that everything, registry and disk drive have no problems. I've attached an error printout from Norton crashguard. And finally I've lost my windows 95 manual so I want to avoid reinstalling Windows. I'd appreciate anyome who knows any black magic offerring advise, fixes, spells or incantations that will help me fix this problem. HELLLLP This is the Black Box Data Recorder Windows 95 Version 4.00.1111 POSER caused a general protection fault in module MACXW4.DRV at 0001:00000f14. Registers: EAX=000003f7 CS=02ff EIP=00000f14 EFLGS=00000246 EBX=32ff8558 SS=5137 ESP=0000855c EBP=000085c0 ECX=00000100 DS=0687 ESI=0000b12e FS=0000 EDX=0000012a ES=03f7 EDI=0000859e GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 66 26 ff 2e b0 df 66 5e 66 50 1e b8 f7 03 8e d8 Stack dump: 05371ee1 00000000 12160000 121f0000 0687b17c 513785aa 00000100 0000002a 1fb60000 00000100 06874fc1 4fc11e91 00004fc1 00000000 00001216 00000000

Delete the RSR file in the Poser folder then reinstall see if that fixes it if it does back up thr RSR for next time :o)........Steve

Once you get it back by doing what Steve here says, install the patch! I had this happen quite regular until I installed the patch, it seems to fix whatever causes this burnout of Poser ;-)

I had this too. Delete every Metacreatiions file from your system, re-install and then install patch is my advise.

If you have a second drive, the better option is to save your "runtime" there so then you can just move it back afterwards all intact. In fact, you can do this with the same drive, just move it somewhere else and then uninstall poser and reboot and then reinstall poser and then move you runtime back in place. This way you don't lose all your hours of work adding to poser.

yup... do the rsr first... then the complete.. an i mean complete uninstall and reinstall.. not just overlay the program... and by the way.. those numbers.. and letters are stack errors.. and alot of them are ram addressing...so when poser crashed it crashed in the ram.... so after uninstalling before reinstalling... i would run scan disk and defrag... and then reboot at least five times... windows puts things right back in the same place.. often with the same errors if you don;t...

Uninstall and reinstall, then manually install the patch (it worked for me, thanks guys!!). I also have EVERY download from the 'Net saved on a zip disk, so if you have lots of stuff in your libraries, it's a good way to archive so you don't have to go and download everything again. Good luck.

Also, just to be on the safe side, after you've deleted, re-installed, and updated Poser, go to the Poser RSR and copy it over to another directory so you've a clean working RSR is things go pear-shaped again. I've also switched the properties on my RSR to "read only" to reduce the chances of it being corrupted. Paul

Thank you for your responses. With the consistancy of these responses I'm sure they will work.