OK so after some time with launching poser, switching rooms and crashing to desktop, I finally have my problem narrowed down the the following: Poser apparently HATES my WACOM Graphhire tablet and MS Office's CFTMON.EXE. If I shut down both TABLET.EXE and CTFMON.EXE I am able to run Poser without crashing by switching rooms. Unless I do that, Poser drops me to desktop every time without fail. You others who are having crashing issues please try that and let me know!

in my case it was the nwiz.exe file that lets my p6 crash
i deleted this file and now it runs. i hope it helps.

Message edited on: 03/23/2005 03:16

Oh poo .... I have a Wacom Graphire, and I'm still waiting for my P6 to arrive in the mail. I'll just have to wait and see, I guess.

Write techsupport@curiouslabs.com and ask them to look into the tablet issue... or anything where you can narrow it down like this to a specific executable arguing with the program.

Hmm... I have Tablet.exe running and Poser6 works fine. ??? In fact I have the tablet, a wireless trackball AND a wireless mouse all running, all work fine with Poser6. I have a total of 46 processes running right now (even with no apps up at all except Browser). And Poser doesn't have a problem with any of them. Including Virus/Firewall and Ad-Aware. I've run Poser6 with 8 other apps running at the same time including Photoshop. No problem. Okay, I didn't try any massive renders, but still. Win2K. :] Fish

No problem with my Wacom Intuos 3 and Poser 6.

Intuos 2, I shut down tablet.exe, and sure enough, that was the culprit. Shee-it. That's a serious quality of life issue.

No big deal. It's not like artists are candidates to use a Wacom or something.

Hey there, handsome. So much for doing postwork on one thing while rendering another. I'm sure they'll have a patch for it. Someday. Maybe.

Check for updated Wacom drivers.

They're up to date. (Nov. 11, 2004)

It's a big deal to me...I use my Wacom all the time in Poser (and most everything else). I could never go back to a mouse or trackball for two major reasons: 1) They don't afford near enough control and 2) extreme pain in hand after about an hour using mouse or trackball.

I am having a similar issue, whenever I attempt to save a render P6 is crashing to the desktop. I have a Wacom Grapphire as well. Wierdness!

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/articleview/18?sbss=435

Well, although it WAS true that shutting down tablet.exe was fixing it, I thought before I emailed CuriousGeorgeLabs I would bring my Nvidia drivers up to current so as to avoid them telling me that. Guess what?? 66.93 updated to 71.84 and I no longer have to close down tablet.exe. I feel like a dork for not eliminating that FIRST. I should know better. Anyway, hope that helps someone else. Happy rendering.

Thanks Danava for the update. I'm glad to hear the problem is solved for you.

I always contact tech support, but I check these forums as well...hehe. My problem was a faulty install due the McAfee firewall playing havoc with some files...whoops!

Look ma, I'm rendering - and with my Wacom running, too. So far so good, anyway. ;) Thanks for the heads up on the Nvidia drivers.

Thanks also for the nVidia tip. (btw - The screen magnifyer in this version is quicker and easier to get in & out of, so now I can actually use it to read all Poser's teenie-tiny funky fonts on non-contrasting backgrounds.)

Funny how it is the little things... like being able to read the fonts, or telling it to quit a search and having it obey (wow!), or compare renders with a flick of a slider.... :) My workbeasts don't have firewalls or anti-spyware or whatever since they are never connected to the Internet. This old WIN98 box does connect... but nothing is networked to it. It has a CD burner. I'd rather hand-carry a disk than leave my system open to whomever next exploits a backdoor. Having an old sacrificial "Internet box" is always an option. That way you can read email and browse the forums while a render is brewing, or be reading a tutorial on one monitor while working on another. Norton used to be wonderful... a real life and hair saver... but something happened a few years back. Norton's disk-scanning tools keep throwing up false messages and don't repair things they said they repaired. After a few go-rounds, I decided that I just can't trust it implicitly anymore. Since so many applications say to turn off Norton or anti-virus when installing them, there must be a reason why they interfere. It might be due to the monitoring process, but then CleanSweep and such utilities would also get in the way. Carolly