razor24 opened this issue on Apr 11, 2005 ยท 62 posts
rdf posted Tue, 12 April 2005 at 12:05 AM
Well, I pretty much agree with everyone, even razor24. Poser 6 is buggy. It has corrupted 3 of my files now. On my system, which has 2 gigs ram, it frequently informs me I have run out of memory without warning and without any way to correctly save the file in progress (i.e., if I try to save it after the warning, it will be 0 bytes long). By the way, even if I rename the file when saving it, it will also reduce the original file to 0 bytes!! Figure that one out. And I have seen a few other disturbing glitches. On the other hand, when it works, Poser 6 is a pleasure to use. Faster, sleeker, more intuitive than Poser 5 -- which for someone who never got the chance to use Poser 4 is a godsend. Anyway, if not for the memory problem, and with a few other more minor fixes and improvements, Poser 6 is likely to prove a very productive upgrade. And I fully expect at least the most important of those fixes and improvements will be forthcoming in fairly short order. I've done some programming myself, and CL should be able to find and at least partially fix the memory problem fairly soon. There are plenty of tools for that sort of thing. Still, if I'd known Poser 6 was not really ready for prime time, I probably would've waited.