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Subject: Hit the "renderable" limit in Poser 4.0.3?

klown opened this issue on Nov 12, 2004 · 9 posts
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klown ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 12:18 PM · edited Mon, 06 January 2025 at 11:07 PM

Trying to render a scene with several 3ds objects and three V3 figures and about a dozen P4 stock characters. The entire file is about 180MB. When I render I shut all shadows off, leave the other 3 options on and set size to about 2400x1800. Poser begins to render the scene but never opens the new window and sits there in this state where it does nothing, even after several hours. I've done a few others successful renders with a smaller 150MB version of this that has two V3 figures. Any thoughts? Sys info: P4 1.6 1.25 GB RAM 60 MB HD running Win XP osr 1, no tsr's or anti-virus. VM is set to windows default 80 MB HD running Poser 4.0.3 VM is set to windows default

randym77 ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 1:45 PM

A dozen characters? Yeek. I think you might have to render this one in layers, then put them together in Photoshop.

lesbentley ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 2:11 PM

60MB HDD? Perhaps 60GB ;)

klown ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 3:59 PM

yes, GB not MB! What the hell was I thinking when I put those drives from my Amiga 2000 in my PC?

stewer ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 4:05 PM

Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

Open XP's process manager (ctrl-alt-del) and watch the memory usage of the Poser procss. Does it reach or come close to 2GB? In that case you have reached the limit of how much memory Windows XP will give to an application - the only chance you have is to trim down your scene: Smaller textures, remove unused morphs and geometry, use lower res figures where possible. There are ways to make XP give 3GB to applications, but I have never tried it. Anyone brave enough?

klown ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 4:52 PM

I'll let you know Stewer, thanks for the link!

Khai ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 4:57 PM

right.. anyone know if you can run Windows Server 2003 enterprise as a workstation? 32gb real ram support? yes please!!!

ynsaen ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 6:41 PM · edited Fri, 12 November 2004 at 6:45 PM

Khai -- yes, you can.

Just set up the server and then enable the workstation mode service. Poof.

However, to get beyond the 2GB addressing, you have to use the 64 bit version, which isn't all that bad a price.... And stewer -- I'm not sure that Poser will be able to use that space if freed as I'm not certain its got that odd little key...

Message edited on: 11/12/2004 18:45

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Little_Dragon ( ) posted Fri, 12 November 2004 at 9:16 PM

The entire file is about 180MB.

Don't forget to add in the weight of all those OBJ files (which aren't included in the PZ3), as well as the raw, uncompressed bitmaps.


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