OK, I've deleted the content room....Poser5 is set to open to a blank RT, so all is OK when opening. However, Once woking inside the program, it's beyond slow :(. Once the watch disappears, I thought the damn thing was done doing it's thing...but NO, it's still churning. As I've discovered today with a couple crashes because I was clicking & nothing...and yes the watch was gone. I'm not accessing thru PPP by the way either.

And yes, I have SR4 ;)and have rebooted etc etc :), done the virus/spyware thing LOL.....

WinXP Pro/2 gig of ram/100gig free on HD/P2.6GHZ.

Have I missed something???

TIA

Message edited on: 09/26/2004 19:45

Have you de-fragged lately? And check to see if there any .tmp files in your Windows temp folder. Sr4 should have cleared that problem but you never know.

Check on all the above :)

Second really dumb suggestion: Have you checked that your cpu fan and case fan are clean? You might be starting to get some thermal buildup that's slowing down the hard drive. If you other apps are running OK for get that suggestion.

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All other apps are OK.... Will check out that link! Thanks.

You should check that you didn`t add or delete anything in the xml files when you changed them.

Probably not much of a help or any reasoning either but mine has been moving slowly too. Have XP also and keep up on all the other stuff.

When you removed Content room, did you make a backup of the .xml file? If so, might be worth just reinstalling it and checking that it wasn't the cause. I never heard of it being a problem, but you never know...

Do some basic troubleshooting. Had Poser operated faster before? What has changed since then? You can test to see if removing the Content Room caused the problem. I assume you backed up the file you edited to remove it. Restore that file and see if your performance goes back to normal. If Poser has always been slow, have you run CorrectReference to check and fix any texture references? If not, get it and do the job.

I have come to the conclusion it's the darn sub folders....When I access a folder that has subfolders...slow down...area with no sub folders normal.

You say SR4. If you really mean SR4 rather than SR4.1 then you need to upgrade. SR4 was meant to speed up P5 over SR3, but for some of us (not sure of the common cause, but suspect the early release CD for P5 as it had some differences in the XML fles) SR4 was slower than SR3 and even SR2. But for me SR4.1 speeded up P5 way beyond anything in any earlier release - still slower than P4 or even ProPack, but at least usable (with CP removed of course). I don't use sub-folders, so can't confirm that aspect.

Nope...meant SR4.1

A few things to check: If running 2000 or xp turn off bells and whistles (menu animations, xp windows look etc) Did you close everything down except poser? Or at least turn off stuff you aren't using when using poser? It is possible to run other apps with poser (quite a few actually) but some driver apps might need to be closed or stuff that just hangs out on the task bar taking up memory.

All that's open is my printer & broadband connection. That said...when piddling around inside P5 today, it seems to due to sub-folders..at least for me anyway. I've moved a few things around & now it's acceptable. Thank you all for your responses!

Poser 5 is so weird. I find that keeping folders "lean" keeps things going faster. Consequently, I have lots of subfolders, but with less stuff in each. It only gets slow if a folder is too full. Strange progie Poser 5! :)

Run CorrectReference on all library items against your texture directory. P5 gets very cranky when textures aren't where the library item says they are. Many vendors leave file references in their product that isn't even in the texture directory ... and P5 simply craps out looking for them. CorrectReference is a free utility from Hogsoft

You could make an extra runtime somewhere on your hard disk and put the things that you don`t use so much into it from poser 5 and add the runtime. It might help to speed things up.

Many vendors leave file references in their product that isn't even in the texture directory If that's true, then said product shouldn't have been able to pass testing here. I'm sure the store staff would like to know which products has this problem. Of course it could be a very old one...

Unfortunately, even some of the "big name" providers of Poser content are guilty of that error, and some of the artists are not very friendly or cooperative when the problem is mentioned. That is why I decided long ago to take matters in my own hands. Of course I do get fed up sometimes when it seems I can't just sit down and make a picture without having to fix something first.

I run CorrectReference on all new downloads not only because of incorrect references in the original product, but because I often put the textures in different sub-directories based on some common indicater like "starwars", "vicky", etc. It's a good basic procedure to ensure that all new library items are optimized. It makes a world of difference.

The free version of CorrectReference (CR) is not adequate. CR does not always make the correct choice when it encounters duplicate file names in textures. This can be a huge problem. CorrectReference Pro (CRPro) allows you to choose between duplicate texture references, and also handles Geometry files and Injection References. Hogwarden put a lot of work into CRPro, and it is well worth the price.

I've had the same thing happen to me very recently especially after updating Windows XP to Service Release 2. I reformatted my hard drive, reloaded everything, and did not update to XP SR2 and everything seems to be back to normal. I finally had to move to Poser 5 (even though I've had it for two years and still prefer 4) because of enormous libraries. Defragmenting didn't do anything for me either. I do it at least once a week.

I find it interesting that so many people still blame Windows XP for their computer problems. Windows XP was the best thing to happen in my house, and made my Poser experience so much more bearable. That darned Poser 4 is so flipping buggy that it would bring my computer to its knees, especially when Poser couldn't find something and threw a temper tantrum. I installed Windows XP, and suddenly Poser 4 began to behave. I installed Poser 5, and appreciated the benefits of the new version immediately. I never had half the troubles people are still talking about. And I installed XP Service Pack 2, with absolutely no problems.

CRpro does more than just fix references to texture files, it also can look for obj files that are needed as well. The problem with CR itself is that it does, as mentioned above, take a text file of the same name and replace it. When this occurs, one can use the search capability of XP to find the others of the same name.