Does p6 run well with xp home edition? Im running with a 256Mb card and a gig of RAM. I was curious if this would be an acceptable limit or should i stick with Daz Studio?

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I use XP Pro exclusively, but it has been mentioned that since SP2, Home and Pro are virtually indistinguishable (same kernel). With that in mind, I'd suspect that P6 will run well. System is up to snuff, so go for it! :)

Thanks kindly for the information!

I run p6 on XP Home and have never had any problems.

Hi Dynamo, I run XP Home SP2. With 512mb RAM 128mb ATI card. I don't think you would have any problems. Not caused by OS anyway ;)

Runs awesome on my computer AMD64 3500+, 768mb ram, 128mb Ati Xpress 200 by the way this is a laptop.

I run Poser on 3 pcs, all with XP home on them, none have as big a video card memory as yours, two ATIs with 128mb and a NVIDIA with 64mb and only one has a gig of ram, one is AMD and they all work without problems.......Steve

Difference between XP Home and Pro? I just learned this. XP home can't read hard drives bigger than 130gs. Pro can. Does Poser 6 handle memory better than 5 does?

I haven't heard about that (and it's not mentioned on the M$ page comparing between Pro and Home - albeit archaic). Originally, multiprocessor/core support did not exist, but Home will support multicores since SP2. Home still doesn't have multilanguage as far as I know. But what would limit the harddrive size for Home? Both Pro and Home can utilize NTFS (the only filesystem worth using, by the way). Can you provide a link (or so) where you read this? Thanks! Robert

Does Poser 6 handle memory better than 5 does? I'm not really sure yet. On the other hand, this month I've rendered several lengthy (450+ frames) animation sequences, and P6 didn't glitch on me once, so perhaps they've finally plugged most of the larger memory leaks.

not sure what happened when i installed xp, but on my 160gig drive, it would not allow one huge partition. I put the OS and all system/driver files etc, anything that link directly in, such as media players, etc .. on a 25gig partition. It then would only allow me a 103gig partition, and have one left at 21gig ... not sure why that happened. XP HOme . But otherwise, Poser runs just fine, and having partitions doesn't pose a problem either.

No link. Sorry. I experienced it. I installed a 320g HD last week and we tried for hours with M$ XP home to do a full format without partition on a SATA port. It could only see 130gs. Had I installed the OS and then applied SP2 it might have given me the rest, but then how? and in what sort of shape? We thought of using WD tools to format, but again I didn't trust XP to see it and access it without problem. We finally called the distributor and he said we needed Pro. I already had the os on another computer so I switched them from one to the other. I had never heard of that limitation either before last week.

Thanks LD that's encouraging.

Interesting, quixote and Dave-So. Makes me once again glad to only use XP Pro and avoid Home. :) Partitioning might be the only solution for drives over 130GB in Home.

Kuroyume, Partitioning, even in Pro and unless you absolutly need a large drive, might not be a bad idea. SATA is more efficient in medium or small size drives and may take up less resources. I do believe that Pro is much better at detecting and fixing problems. Can't say why it is, it just seems that way having worked with both OSs. Q

I have a desktop and a laptop both running on XP Pro. But I also have a desktop that has an older MSI K7T Turbo motherboard that I use for video files and sound files. The PC is running Windows XP Home edition SP2. The boot drive is a Western Digital 250GB ATA drive. Windows XP Home edition with SP1 had no problem partitioning and formating the drive to its full capacity in one partition. I have heard that Windows XP Home without SP1 is limited to 137GB.

I also have a Seagate 300GB ATA hard drive that I use for storage. It was also partitioned as one large partition, and formated on the Windows XP Home system without using any special software.

If your Windows XP Home does not recognize a large drive, it either does not have SP1 installed, or you have a BIOS conflict.

I hope that helps.
Of course both are formatted using NTFS.

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Mine is an early issue of XP. SP1 is installed separately. SP2 was downloaded. No bios conflict. So once you install XP and then add SP1 you have to go back and use repair to get the OS to see the drive or does it just appear? Or did you use Western Digital tools to format the full C drive and then perform the install? BTW: There is no FAT 32 issue here. Q

I have 2GB DDram (PC3200's) Duel Channel, WinXP home (SP2) Two HDs (7200Rpm), and no prob here. Ati Radeon 9600xt 128mb. Both HD read fully and partitioned (100%) NTFS Pri 160GB (Maxtor) Sec 80GB (Western Dig) CDrw (Lg) 52x DVDrw (Sony)

Thanks Everyone, great community spirit I have been away from poser for quite a long time and wanted to jump back in. Now.. can nyone point to a site with soem smaple poser animation, i wanted to compare it and Studio to see which meets my individual needs (get me.. all informed consumer =P) Im aching to see what i can do with the new set, i wasnt to keen on Judy and Don, but these models seemto have a stronger backbone of support.

BTW, I don't understand the 130 GB problem. I am using XP home with SR1 and SR2 and I have HDs with 250 and 300 GB for data with only one partition. Never heard about that prob.

Well Jules its rather simple. Some of us have XP home with SP1 on the install disk, some were unwitting Microsoft beta testers and have XP home without SP1 on the install disk. The XP disk utility with SP1 will see a HD greater than 137 GBs and can access and format the disk, the ones released prior to SP1 can't access more than 137gb and therefore can't format the drive untill SP1 is installed. Thus, installing the OS on a HD greater than 137gb with an early XP home setup disk without SP1 might require another utility to format the entire disk. Or a later release of XP home or Pro. Q

wonder if MS would issue a FREE replacement that would format the large drives. I have the original version without SP1 ... Guess that was a stupid thought, especially with the current state of XP license. Lucky we don't have to pay everytime we reinstall.

:))) State of the license Dave? The way I see it, most corporate executives these days should be making licences for the state... :)))

LOL .. I agree with that