Okay, I'm trying to do a scene in Poser 5 using its volumteric lighting abilities. I set up the Vicky 3 and Mike 2 character (with clothing) and set the lights where I wanted them. I then went to the lights and adjusted the nodes so I could get volumteric lighting.

Every other time that I render a scene, I get an error message saying that Poser is out of memory. This can't be! I have over 3G of memory and 2 100G hard drives! What is going on?

I downloaded and installed both service packs for Poser 5, so that can't be the problem.

My system specs are:

• Dual AMD 5000 processors, running at 3G each
• 3.5G of Level-3 DIMM memory
• 512k bus, running at 1G
• Dual SSCI RAID 100G Maxtor hard drives
• 27" flat-screen plasma monitor running at 1600x1200 resolution
• Hercules 5 video card with 512M video memory
• 5 avialable PCI slots
• 2 avaialble USB slots
• Windows 95, SR 1

This message was meant as sarcasm. Please do not offer "correct" advice on how to tweak Poser to work on a Windows 95 system. Although it will go right over the heads of the people that most need it, I think everyone will agree that a top-of-the-line computer means nothing if it's running an obsolete operating system. This has been a public service announcement urging everyone to upgrade off of DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98, especially if they're trying to run any 3-D programs!

Dunno about that but my computers better ;)

Get a Mac.

You forgot the dynamic hair on each character as well?!?

Gosh.....if it wasn't for you JohnRender we would all just be up shit creek in our stupidity! (This message was meant as a sarcasm for those who think they have a corner on the "common sense" market)

gee, my Win98SE runs just fine and P5/SR3 only chokes on really, really big scense.

Your mistake is not running FireWire... DOH! What would we do without your humor, huh?

I agree about the OS. I upgraded everything on my computer system 1 Gig memory doubled the processor speed used every memory manager and utility out there and still had extremely slow renders and frequent lockups. I finally gve in and upgraded from Win98 to XP. My performance increased by almost drastically (11.5 min to 2 min for a single render).

{Get a Mac} Good suggestion. Last night I went out and got myself a super-fast, super-high-end, custom-built G5. But, Poser still won't work. Do I have to use a Mac version or something? :) Or does it have antyhing do with the fact that it's running System 6?