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Subject: Poser 3 and Windows XP

Flycatcher opened this issue on Sep 25, 2003 ยท 8 posts
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Flycatcher ( ) posted Thu, 25 September 2003 at 7:12 PM ยท edited Wed, 27 November 2024 at 2:29 PM

Yes, that's right - I really did mean version 3! I've only occasionally used Poser as an adjunct to Vue d'Esprit scenes, and because of the infrequency of use, have never felt inclined to upgrade from my free cover disk version of Poser 3. Recently however I bought a new PC and am in the process of transferring software from the old Windows 98 SE machine (where Poser 3 worked fine) to my new Windows XP Pro beast. So far Poser 3 is the only "legacy" program that has given me problems. Whenever I try to run it, I immediately get an "Out of memory" error - a little surprising as the old machine had only 256Mb of RAM and 16Gb hard disk space, whereas the new PC has 1Gb RAM and 400Gb hard drive space. I have tried un-installing and re-instalkling Poser 3, plus using the XP Pro compatibility mode setting for emulating Windows 98, all without success. Can anyone please advise me if there is a way around this, or am I condemned to transferring models between the two machines?

JohnF1964 ( ) posted Thu, 25 September 2003 at 7:41 PM

Poser 4 does not work right with 1GB or more of ram, version 3 may have the same problem. Contact Curious Labs they have a memory fix for version 4, they may have one for 3 as well.

Flycatcher ( ) posted Thu, 25 September 2003 at 7:53 PM

Thanks John. I'll check that out.

EnglishBob ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 4:42 AM

Poser 3 does have the same problem, but I don't think there is a fix for it. You may just have to upgrade. 8) Make sure you have the 3.01 patch though - you can still get that at CL.

jehllm ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 6:26 AM

Hi - I was wondering about the problem with Poser 4 above 1 gig. Does it affect Pro? I am about to get an extra gig of memory just to try and speed poser up, so it is an important issue. thanks!

EnglishBob ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 6:45 AM

You need the Poser Pro Pack Memory Updater - "For Poser Pro Pack users with greater than 1GB of total memory (RAM + virtual memory = more than 1 GB.) to run normally." - from Curious Labs' download page. Poser 4 users need the 4.03 update. There is no fix for Poser 3 - other than throwing away RAM until you have <= 1GB. :(

Flycatcher ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 5:49 PM

Thanks Bob. I have the patch. Don't think I'll be throwing away RAM any time soon - might consider updating once the Vue 4.2 patch is out and I've saved up a few more pennies. Oh well, I guess it's just a case of shuffling between two PCs for the moment.

Wadus ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 10:20 PM

try dropping your virtual memory. I was getting the same error with XP and 1G of RAM and I dropped my paging file down and that fixed it for me...

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