I am running Vue 5.03 build 273768 on a system with 1 gig of physical ram. Over the weekend I bought and installed Poser 4 (upgraded to 4.03 with the fix memory patch). What was immediately apparent was that using imported Poser objects massively increases the instability of Vue 5 on my system. I created a scene of 1,415,393 polygons containing four imported Poser objects. I suffered a series of Out of Memory system crashes with no warning whatsoever, and one crash to desktop. I am also getting Low Memory warnings as soon as the file has completed loading. I am completely new to Poser, so have to ask - has this been the experience of other Poser 4 users using Vue 5? Thanks, Bernie

Very Strange ! It seems that you have all those problems because of Poser... But Poser and Vue 5 interacts only while Vue is reading Poser files. So there should be no problem whilw you work on Vue alone and Poser is closed. I have both Poser 5 and Vue 5 - Frequently they run together and I did not encountered such problems - Vue cooperates with Poser very well. I suggest you reinstall your Windows ! Are you running Windows XP ? I never experienced a System Crash on XP - sometime an application crashes but whole system crash ? Definitely you should format your HDD and reinstall the system. Maybe there is a mess in the Register

No, I haven't been experiencing system crashes, but programme crashes! (just re-read my post & realised that it isn't clear) Format my HDD - with 70 gig of applications & data on it - that really would be the last act of a desperate man!!!!! :-) Bernie

LordWexford...please report to this to E-ON...they have stated with the latest release(beta), they have fixed the OOM thing. I can report, I had the same problems. I just now started working on a scene using the latest build in Vue & the scene will be primarily Poser5 items. Will reposrt back at end of day, as to how things went. Right now the scene has 4 Poser items(buildings) and 2 Vue objects, with atmos = GR...so far no crashes :) No need for re-installing anything.......

I use Poser Pro-Pack every day with Vue 5 and have no problems at all with error messages or anything else. It is extremely stable and I have never seen a crash or even these OOM's some people talk about. I think it is due to other system configuration conditions outside of Poser and Vue. (I have Poser 4 pro-Pack on a 250 GB SATA E drive and Vue 5 on a 250GB SATA G drive running XP Pro. RAM is 1.5 GB.)

LordWexford...so far so good :). I'm a little over halfway done with the current scene. So far, 402 objects(80% of which are Poser5) and am up to 715k & no crashes :). I'm thrilled. I have ceased working on the scene this evening as, I started noticing a slow down when moving/resizing objects, which is the start of sign things are getting clogged LOL. That said, the next stage of this pic will definately be a test. I still need to add 4 People/1 animal & Santa & reindeer, so I should see the poly count go up dramaticlly. I won't be able to report back till the end of the week as to how this is going, as tomorrow it's back to real-life LOL and I only have a couple hours each night to "have fun". Oh, my sys specs are 2.6GHZ/P4/WinXP Pro/ 2G of ram/ Nvidia 5200(I think) with on board 128k ram . Poser & Vue are on the same HD all by themselves(250HD with 105G free). And I was getting OOM's.

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Once I start moving my poser figures around too much in a scene I start getting the error messages. Not always, but sometimes I end up with the 'Vue has to close' it then tries to make a backup of the file (usually fails) Sorry didn't see this thread when I made a simliar comment above. I'm useing the beta update. P4 266 1gig ram.