Hi all.

I need some advice.
Now I have browsed the Forum in hopes of the answer but have come up empty.
I imagine the answer is far far far from simple. :(
But lets just see...

I'm running Poser 6 on a Mac 15" Powerbook G4 with a 1.5 ghz Procesor 1 gb of ram & 80 gb HD.
I don't know much, err actualy, anything about graphic cards but I'm told by a MAC pro that Macs Graphic Cards are somewhat advanced to say the least.
This Mac pro is also extremely amazed that any program is capable of crashing what he says is the most stable system on the planet.

I canot get through ANY scene without problems.
My crashes are all when going into the Material room.
Poser 6 says you can put files ANYWHERE!

1. I tryed moving my entire operation to a new computer.
2. I tryed moving all my files into one organized folder.
3. I tryed reloading all my runtimes.
4. I tryed working with more simple single charactor 1 prop scenes.

And yet still she crashes.
I always backup and now have many unuseable files.

I have invested alot of time and money.
I have a trillion scene ideas.

I am days away from hanging it all up.

As much as I appreciate all replyes My hopes are only for what others did to solve there similar problems.

Many thanks!!!!
Hope I'm still here in a month. :>/

Scott

Oh ya. I do have Poser SR2 installed. And am running Tiger 10.4.4 which is supposed to have the most up to date Graphic Drivers. Scott

Have you applied all service releases to P6? I'm not a Mac user myself, but I seem to recall Poser didn't run well on the new Mac OS at first.

You might want to post your question over in the Mac forum as well.

Post a message over at the Mac forum. I seem to recall there were some issues with 10.4.

good luck in the mac forum. when they inevitably say P6 is rock-solid, never crashes on their machines, then badger them for details until you can learn what differences are causing your P6 to fail. my guess would be a faulty graphics card or faulty sub-spec RAM.

I'm kind of curious about you comment that Poser 6 says you can put files anywhere. What do you mean by that? There are runtime file structure parameters. Guess I need more specifics to help you out. I'm running P6MAC out of one runtime with 30 gigs of content on two different computers and things don't crash. Like to try to help you out if I can. -jay

It sounds like P6 and Tiger aren't getting along to well. I got the P6 demo on a G3/400,(running Panther) which is under the listed min. req. for use. It works, slow at times but don't crash, unless it it has too much to do and not enough speed to do it.

Thanks randym77.
I didn't even know there was a Mac Forum.
I've posted a thread over there. No real solutions yet but beyween the two my hopes are high. I also sent my original text to Poser. No reply yet.

Thanks Miss nancy for the smile. ")
At the risk of sounding like those you speak of... Since my moving to OS X just over a year ago nothing has ever crashed my computers. Pre X had lots of crashes.

Jay when I speak of "anywhere" all I mean is that you can load as many runtimes as you want and put them anywhere. The Poser book says even external drives. I beleive thats what I read. I beleive what there getting at is RT's do not need to be in the download folder supplied in the poser app folder.
I have tryed mine both in that folder and on my users document folder. I haven't tryed bulking mine into one.

Charlie.
On Posers site they speak of issues P6 has with Tiger. Mostly these seem to be seperate from my problems. Though they do talk of crashes when switching rooms they say SR2 fixes this problem. I've SR2 and it didn't fix my problem.

I have tryed the most simpilist scenes I mean incredibly simple one Daz Figure one Daz clothing and one never before used prop & though I got alot of in & outs of the material room it inevetably did crash my System.

I realy don't know what I'm going to do.

Maybe I just need to get away from it for awhile.

Thanks Much!

Scott

Yesterday after doing a clean install of Poser (this includes deleting ALL preferences), this is what I tryed. I opened Poser and loaded four runtimes. Daz Luke & Laura. Their textures. Their bodysuits. And also one prop, Devil horns (it seemed to fit the moment) which I got from the free area & is something I've never used prior to now. I loaded Luke changed his texture & put his bodysuit on and added the devil horns. I kept the default lighting but changed one of it's shadow values to .3 & map to 500 and moved their positions a bunch of times throughout my tests. I then kept changing things, body positions, lights position, light colors, doing a render every so often all the while in and out of the materials room changing colors ect. trying to push poser. I could not get it to crash. I then added a 1 sided square and enlarged it to 800% I then went to the material room applyed the devil horn texture to it & once again like above pushing poser to crash like so many times before. Just when I thought I had passed past-points of crashes... I go over to the material room & Wouldn't you know it? CRASH!!!! :>((((((((