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Results of some tests. - I am on a works pension and I have to watch the odd 50's and 100's, so I have to think carefully about spending. - I have Poser 4.0.3 without PPP. - I have Windows 98. I don't want the expense of upgrading my Windows unless I am VERY VERY VERY sure that the result won't have bugs or bad side effects or incompatibities. - I have Poser 5 including "Service Release 3 for Poser 5 by Curious Labs". - This link is my subskimmer scene. It contains 38 characters. 6 of them are wetsuitmen, 1 is my subskimmer boat, 2 are my raygun, the rest are diving gear of various file sizes. And 8 props including the ground (which I use recolored as the sea). - Poser 4 before I installed Poser 5 :: loaded and rendered OK.

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• Poser 5: it jams if I try to load a scene that big, whether as a .PZ3 file or as a big multiple character. - - - - - -

• Poser 4 after I installed Poser 5:- (I reassigned the extension -.PZ3 to call Poser 4. I left the extension -.PZZ alone to call Poser 5.) - Clicking on a -.PZ3 file always results in an empty stage at factory default but with all 3 lights set "off". Also, when I click the little triangles below the stage, the names of the lights and ground don't appear until I have clicked around a bit. - Calling a big multiple character from library (6 divers in an inflatable boat): loaded to stage without complaint, but the lights stayed off and the stage stayed factory default size. - I copied my subskimmer scene --.PZ3 as --.CR2 but left its lights and cameras and universe etc in it. I moved the copy into one of my character library folders. I loaded it into my Poser 4. It loaded OK and the lights and the stage size and the stage background color went OK. - - - - - -

Please advise.