Hey gang, hope all is fine and that someone can lend a hand here.... So I had poser working fine one day, next(today) it ain't workin' no more..... Don't know what did I do.... Didn't install anything new, and the rest of the comp is workin' just fine.... tried uninstall, instal and the latest sr3 and it won't go.... anybody has any ideas? thanks vince

Hey guess what? it's working..... it's just so f****** slow that I had time to come here, post a message, come back, and then it worked, and still, the little bar in blowindows says Curious Labs Poser(Not Working) man.... I'll tell ya.... there's some weird things going on..... anyway thanks

Which edition of which version of Poser are you using?

Try running Disc Clean Up followed by Scandisc and Defrag. Then do a virus check. Sounds like something is eating your memory.

yeah, see, the weirdest one is me.... sorry just too tired even to think and that's not somehting wich I'm used too... like thinking I mean.... anyways, poser 5 p4 1.5 1 gig ram 25 gig hd for poser anyways thanks guys btw now I can't open vic 3 .......

thanks phil, but no virus and I just did a scandisk...... don't really understand why poser is soooooooooooooooooooo slow.... and why after reinstaling it to same directory v3 won't open....

it comes to the point of using 99 on win pro task manager.... and I changed the priority..... it guets better.... if one has the patience to wait for it....

I don't know about P5, but uninstalling P4 doesn't remove the preferences so if they became corrupted that wouldn't help. In the P4 case, deleting anything left in the base Poser 4 folder, plus the two Poser 4Runtime foders with Plugin in the name seems to clear the decks.

I've recently had a problem on my machine, doing all sorts of wierd stuff. It even froze when left to do nothing for 5 mins. Anyway I traced it all back and found that the machine was close to overheating, I've done a quick fix by taking the sides of the case and increasing the air flow, it seems to be OK the last 2 times I tried it. It looks like some of the memory chips become unstable at higher temps. I'm now looking into quiet cooling solutions, without going the watercooled route.

Not to be overly critical, but I believe it's spelled: f*****, not f****. You left off the * ;^}

sabretalon, water-cooled is about as quiet as you can get. I've had mine running non-stop for a few months now, never even comes close to the red. As for the whole water and electric thing...I leave the side off so I can see everything. I was scared at first, but it has been quite reliable.

Try a defrag.... It may be that while you have lots of space available, it's in fragments and Poser is trying to grab as big as chunks as it can get. Do it on the Poser drive, and on the main drive (for the swap file). Every once in a while this one hits me. Next month I'm getting a new computer though. At least 3 gig memory, and the boggest hard drive I can find. Then I'll see how much improvement I get.

Well, I've done a full sys scam with norton (the one on their page) and thanks goodness it's everything is allright there. I'll defrag today later on.... don't really think it's heat 'cause the rest of the sys it's allright.... So maybe it's the damm size of my files, like too many of them, I've been colecting files for years now... so, I'm deleting stuff, just the bump files gave me about 2gigs of space.... anyhow I think poser can take that many files.... hard decision now, what to delete what to keep? thanks all you guys, it has been great help and I really apreciate that vince

You could always buy a Mac! The new G5 with dual processors probably wouldn't give you any of these problems! he he he ;) (OK! OK! It was a joke!...Kind of...) Seriously, I do run Poser 5 on a G4 Mac and I get weird stuff all of the time too. The most annoying problem is when I am doing a "proofing" render and it ends up taking 25 minutes! AGH! A proofing render usually only takes a minute or two depending on the intensity of the graphics I have used. Annoying. But if it helps any...you are not alone!

Defrag isn't the panacea that people think it is. On Win98 I rarely defragged and had no troubles because of it. On XP, Windows seems to defrag the swap file on its own. I can't defrag now anyway because I don't have enough free space left, but the swap file is fine and so is Poser. But I'm using Propack..rarely open Poser 5.

don't forget, everytime you browse you are eating disk space in your temp directories. Mine was really bogged down before I cleaned up copies of everything that was saved in there by windows.

once again thanks for all the knowledge you guys bring..... still poser is damm slow.... to open and to open the libraries, I figure this because of their size, like I have only under geometries about 4gigs ....... that's not couting the rest of it, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....... Yeah well, a g5 dual would be a bless, but I can't afford that, therefore one must do with what one have. Wich right now is a p4 1.5 with one gig ram..... Mesures need to be taken to clean up my poser instalation, like I select a file I don't really need and open it on a editor and delete all of it's directories, does anyone knows an easier way? all help is most apreciated.... thanks guys vince

If you are using windows 2000 or XP the problem could lie with the indexing service. This little 'time save' as Microsoft would have us believe is to speed up searches when you use the 'Find files' utility. Of course, for most home users we know where we keep our stuff. However, every now and then (and I have never been able to figure out exactly how this service is scheduled) my machine would slow to the speed of a snail. After turning the service off it never happened again. For windows XP go into control panel, then administrative tools, and double click on services. In the list you will find an entry that says Indexing Service. Double click on this and set the Startup Type to disabled. Even if it does not fix the immediate problem, disabling the service will not have a negative impact on your system.

Well to open Poser YES it's slow. That's because Poser goes through your textures and builds its own little index. The more textures you have in runtime the longer it takes Poser to open. Mine currently takes a full two minutes. Heh. Freshly installed without my runtime it takes only a few seconds.