Not sure if everyone has seen this as of yet, but I thought Id bring it up as a point of interest, as I think we all get a little frustrated at times, with render times in Poser.
If anyone has seen this, and tried it, please could you tell me if it works or not?

http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/3gb.html

It works.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2588938

It works fine...   but you'd probably have an easier time with instructions from this thread from the 3DsMax forum from February...  Not that Stewers tut was bad, just the instructions in this thread required less fiddling about.

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The instructions from the 3ds max thread are not sufficient for Poser. You need to patch the Poser binary and set the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, otherwise Windows will not give out a single Byte more. I did not provide a "for dummies" tutorial on purpose. In certain cases, the /3GB flag could reduce overall performance or even cause a non-booting system. And I don't want anyone who doesn't know how to undo the changes run into such a situation.

Thanks for the info stewer!!  I assumed adding the 3gb switch alone was sufficient.  I'm giving your way a go right now and I'd be rather surprised if it didn't improve.

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Briliant stewer!!!  Some "MAD HACKING SKILLZ"!!  LOL! 

Works like dream!!  Also did the same with Carrara 5 Pro!!! 

With P6 it is indeed using more memory and I rendered a V3 with Neftis' "Very French Hair" (harsh mem hog) and it seemed rather fast compared to the past.

Thanks for this and all your useful and informative Poser contributions over the last few years!

Gerard

just something Id like to ask... does editing the poser.exe file, only work using version 6 of visual studio, or does the editbin.exe file appear in all the earlier editions? The reason Im asking is because, my service provider hard caps my dsl line after 4 gigs, I dont think I can afford the 400 meg download, but I think I do have an older version of VB somewhere at home....

Thanks in advance....

This is completely illegal and totally against the Poer license agreement. This thread should be locked and destroyed.

This works fine.

Since doing this, I haven't had to layer a single image, Poser 6 renders everything I have asked it to so far.

As regards the legality of it, I don't see why it should be a problem, no one is profiting from it and it is only doing something that that curious labs should have done a long time ago.

Stewer...

I KNOW the specs says it's for WinXP Pro...

Do you know if it will, or do you know that it will NOT work in XP Home?

Reading the specs about the Visual Studio I feel unsure. I'd like to render larger scenes in Poser, but I don't want a non-booting system G

Quote - This is completely illegal and totally against the Poer license agreement. This thread should be locked and destroyed.

:lol:
Oh do, please, explain why, including the section of the EULA that you think covers using a Microsoft supplied tool to change some flags in the executable.

Wholly four king sheet!  Pretty miraculous.  I'm definitely going to give this a tryout, since my computer is long overdue for a reformat I really don't care if it all goes Pete Tong.

In laymans terms Kernel address space consequences of the /3GB switch means that this will kill your machine for games.

Is it possible to modify the boot.ini to have two entries. One with the /3GB switch and one without?

Im on a 64bit so no editing the boot.ini :D just the editbin wee :P

Quote - I KNOW the specs says it's for WinXP Pro...

Do you know if it will, or do you know that it will NOT work in XP Home?

That's how I understand Microsoft's documentation.

I have another question...well actually 2....
I have gone through the rountine, entering the the switch in the boot.ini etc.... I have Visual Basic 6 Professionsl, but have not installed it as Im aware that the installation is huge.... so I opted to download an appliction called masm32, which according to the documentation, also has editbin.exe, right.... so I run the command line blah blah blah.... and it gives me no confirmation that the Poser.exe has has been flagged with LARGEADDRESSAWARE, so I reckon alls good, I run Poser, and I dont really notice any real significant change.... Is this normal? Well whatever "normal" is... Also Im unsure whether VB6 Prof, even has the editbin function.... anyone know?