Will Poser 4 run on Windows 2000? Dennis

Yes. Even if you have a dual boot & run the same .exe from the Win98 install. Using since Sept.

Same here with no probs.......i'd even go as far as saying it runs better than in win98....Steve

Much better...more stable all the way around. Marque

I have been running Poser 4 on a WinNT box...no problems. My new W2K box with a gig of RAM refuses to run Poser 4 or Painter 6. Both Bryce 4 and Carrara run fine as does Photo shop 6. Both Poser and Painter error messages say "not enough memory" and then shut down. This is a new DELL 620 workstation and everything else is excellent. Weird! Dennis

its really odd this Dennis, i've been running win2k since early beta and never had this error, infact i've had such big files i've had the warning that its run out of virtual memory but still ran.....i'm gonna ask a few buddys and see ig they have any idea....Steve

I have Win2kPro and I tried to install it on saturday using partion magic. I made a second primary partition for win2k to sit on. So as not to destroy my Win98 OS. But Win2k refused to see my CD drive even though it could be accesed from dos. After I fought to get the w2k stuff off of it. I then converted the new partition back to fat32. Then merged the two partions back into one like it was before. It totally screwwed up my HD!!!Windows would not start. And I had to format my HD just to get up and running again!!! What the heck is wrong with these programs!? :-( Are you people installing win2k without partitioning the HD? Is that possible? Can you recover if it fails? I'm scared to even attempt it now. ScottA

Hmm. From what I've heard, if you do a "fresh" start with W2K, you have no problems, but if you upgrade to it (especially from 98a or any version of Win95), three times out of four, you have a situation that would make Stephen King turn white with terror...

i start up win98 and put in the win2k cd then when it asks if i want to upgrade i say no and let it install as a seperate os......once its all done i just choose which to boot into when the pc fires up.......the only problem doing it this way (no partition) it ruins a outlook express file in win 98....its not been a problem for me as i use win2k 99% of the time the only reason i have 98 in was coz my cd burner sware wouldn't work in win2k next time I'm binning 98 as i have a new CD app....Steve

Scott wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> ...I then converted the new partition back to fat32. Then merged the two partions back into one like it was before.... <<<<<<<<<<<<<< I'm not totally familiar with W2K yet, but in the days of NT4, running two operating systems from the same root directory was definitely not recommended.

Hi, OK, so it works on 2000 (which I've just trashed :) will it work on Windows Me, (which I've just installed on my laptop) later jb

Dennis, do you have the latest patch for Poser4? I think there was a note in the upgrade to 4.0.3 about its now possible to run Poser with very mutch ram.

Works fine under Win Me for me. Very stable, in fact. One crash in, well, A LOT of sessions ;-)

Only one crash! Now that is stable... :) later jb

Another thing to keep in mind is to make sure that the BIOS for your motherboard is current. This will help you to enable 2K's support for peripherals.

I'm running Win2K on a brand new Dual with 1Gig ram, and Poser 4 complains about "not enough memory" when I start it up. Do I need to upgrade to 4.0.3 to fix this? I'm a little leary of changing right now, since I'm in the middle of a project. joey

Yes. The patch fixes that problem. It's probably the best patch so far as far as installing properly. So it may not cause that much trouble with your project. ScottA

Thanks, that did fix it. Joeyb