Actually as I use p6 more what I'm finding is I have about the same limitations I had with P5 but now have new features. In this case its worth the switch over. I have not seen any new bugs that are show stoppers. I'm just miffed older bugs weren't fixed and P6 should be more helpful at diagnostics.

'Ah, Mac, I thought you were still having the "highlight part" issue. I disabled that, and found poser much harder to work with, but re enabling it was a pain, because poser kept resetting it. I finally just locked the preference file, and that took care of that!' Garee, Didn't you disable it in the .ini file? That's where I did it. Change HILITE_BODY_PART 1 to HILITE_BODY_PART 0 That kills it completely. mac

Yep, that's where I did it.. and selecting body arts because MUCH more of a PITA, IMHO. Problem is, when you set it BACK, it's doesn't return. For some reason, poser keep rewriting the file with it turned off again! That's whay I finally changed it, and then locked the ini file. Poser couldn't change it back to unhighlighted, and after 2 restarts, accepted that as the "normal" mode. I then unlocked the file, and it's been fine ever since. And when trying to restore it, I think I changed and restarted poser about 12 times or so, before thinking of locking the file.

I don't think my experience is unusual. A lot of people can't get P5 to cancel at all. It was improved with SR4, but still isn't perfect. (However, I will definitely try using ESC instead next time!)

My specs: Pentium 2.8, 1.5 Gb RAM, XP Home. Poser is on a 120 Gb hard drive that's more than half empty, my runtimes are on a 265 Gb hard drive that's about half empty.

The "Room of Mixtures" images in my gallery locked up Poser when I tried to cancel. They do use very high-res textures.

The infamous P5 memory leak is also a problem. I suspect that if I just opened the Poser file, started a render, then cancelled, it would probably cancel. But work on the image a couple of hours, try several test renders, then bail out on the final render because I forgot to uncheck "smooth polygons"...it would likely lock up.

'For some reason, poser keep rewriting the file with it turned off again' How weird, garee. I've edited the .ini umpteeen times in P4 and P5 and never had a problem. It just runs it. Oh well, poser is always full of surprises. Randym, I never use the cancel button - always Esc. And it always works. Mind you, I never use the mouse if there's an alternative, which is why I dislike poser's interface so much. LOL. mac

Attached Link: Hanging on "Adding objects"

Attached Link: Hanging on "Adding objects"

FWIW...I've tried using ESC instead of cancel. Didn't make a whit of difference.