I have a Pentium 4 with 2 gigs of RAM and my video is the SIS utility. I have the absolute minimum running at startup so I use my PC solely for Poser and Bryce. Why then does P5 lockup with that dreaded "program is not responding" error message. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanx ..... the ferret

Sometimes that happens to me too, especially when I click on something in Poser while it's trying to do something else. What I do is this: Cntrl Alt Del once to bring up the status screen and check the real time graph. See if the graph indicates that the CPU is redlined at the top. If it is, Poser is doing something--just wait a minute. My message usually goes away in about a minute or two and everything begins to run normally. Plutom

Message edited on: 03/29/2005 07:53

ferret, during long posing/animating/testrender session, I exit all the way out and relaunch once in a while. Also, I second plutom's point that the only time I get in trouble with this is when I get impatient and try to click ahead with another function of library, etc., while something else is still executing. ::::: Opera :::::

I find if you go to processes in the Windows Task Manager, sometimes explorer.exe is the one hogging up all the resources. So I do an End Process for explorer.exe and then Poser can do its thing a be done. Be sure to reload explorer afterwards from Applications : New Task... Just click New Task and type explorer in the pop-up window. Otherwise you can't see any desktop icons or the task bar. Then re-boot. This way at least you get to save any Poser work in progress.

P5 is horrible on memory management. Especially when it comes to rendering a scene.

You can have a super-hot machine loaded with 50 gigs of RAM. It doesn't matter.

Personally, I solved the problem of P5 lock-ups on renders by buying Vue -- and rendering my Poser scenes in that application.

No more lock-ups on a render.

P6 might fix the problem, too. I wouldn't know yet. The box has yet to arrive in the mail.