Running Poser v4.0.3.127,I routinely get two types of crashes.(1)A complete computer-freeze-up Poser crash when moving around complex scenes. This crash is cured by setting the graphics hardware acceleration to none! Of course, this slows down every other graphics program application. (2)Crashes of Poser only (ie. will respond to alt-ctrl-del). I get this from trying to render, usually after the program has run a few hours and is just apparently tired of rendering. I have found no cure for this crash. Same crashes occur on two different PC computers (Win98 2nd),each with different type but powerful processors and with plenty of memory. Any ideas? Thanks.

I used to get these types of problems, too. I tried reinstalling Poser as someone suggested, but it didn't work. I thought it would never get better. But I upgraded my 13 GIG hard drive to a 40 gig and after that it fixed the problem. The only thing I could think was that maybe I didn't have adequate space on my C drive (I had about 140 megs at the time!) or maybe my hard drive was so old (2.5 years) that it had problems that defrag wasn't fixing. If you have a new hard drive with plenty of space, though, I don't know what to tell you. That's just what seemed to fix my problem.

I get the problem when after a few hours I want to render and it just doesn't do it. In fact last night I had a scene set up and it took me quite a while to get everything right, I though I will just do a quick render with the basic setting to see what it all looks before I save it. Well now poser didn't want to render, in fact Poser just hung there, every other application worked, just when I went back to the poser screen everytime I tried to click on something all I hear is that stupidass ding. So of course I cannot save my scene in fact the only thing I can do is hit cntr+alt+del and end task for the poser program. If I want to render anything after this happens then I would have reboot. But after a few of the posts of similar things happening , maybe it is a virtual memory thing. I will have to get another hard drive, but I dont have any ide slots left. Is there an addon card that can let me install more hard drives?

i have the same problems and i have about 15 GBs of free space, 640 mb of ram, and a powerful processor. i dont think it has to do with your system. its just bad programming on the part of metacreations. i guess you just have to live with it. everyone ive spoken to who has poser has problems that are similar. another problem that i get is that after ive been running poser for an hour or two and i exit, my other programs start giving me visual basic runtime errors, so i have to reboot. its a pain in the ass but if you call their tech support theyll only lay the blame on your system like all software manufacturers do -- they never own up to their crappy coding.

Nice to hear that others have this same problem. I reported it to CL last month and was working with tech support. I thought I had my problem solved when I only backed up and restored my libraries, textures, and geometries directories from the runtime directory. But I still have the same problem. After using Poser for a while, it just stops working. It will fail to render most of the time. Other times, the document window will stop displaying the textures on my characters. I sent tech support an email and referenced this thread since 4 other people have this problem.

well they can hardly fault all of us for our setup, by the sounds of it there must be a lot more of us. And I also have the no textures problems after a while too, but usually after I shutdown poser and restart it without rebooting, it still wont render and the textures dont show anymore eiether. It will be interesting to see what comes of this, after their attention has been diverted here. Dont' get me wrong I absolutely love Poser, I just have to make sure each session doesn't last for too long if I want to render the result. I have also learnt to save before trying to do the test render :P

Save, save, save... unless you make a mistake. Then saving's bad. This problem with Poser locking up after working on it a while is something that has destroyed many of my projects. After a while, I just started saving every single time I moved something in the scene. Then when the stupid thing locks up, I don't have to worry about the hours of work put in beforehand. But saving does not aleviate the problem of program lockup. I'm glad to read yet again I am not alone in this frustrating problem. Hope to hear something official from CL soon on the fix!

Taura, Poser does the same thing on my PC. I have to reboot my pc to be able to use Poser again. Everyone, I received an email back from Todd at CL. He is going to forward my email to Larry and the design team. He is looking into the problem and will post a reply here. Some users have mentioned in the past that Poser needs continuous space the poserTemp file that is created. I ran Windows Defrag to defrag my hard drive. I have Norton Utilities and usually use Norton SpeedDisk to defrag my hard drive, but SD can leave small areas of empty clusters. Does anyone else use Norton products?

Poser still locked up after the Defrag. First, I rendered an image with 6 Voluptuous Vicky characters in it at 3200 by 4000. Then I rendered an animation to image files. The images are only 200 by 400 and there are 61 frames in the animation. Poser locked up when rendering frame 60.

I only Norton product I use is the internet security thing. I am bad at doing regular defrags, its just the down time for me to defrag 19gigs that makes me keep putting it off. Even if we knew approximately how much space we should make sure is free to avoid the problem would be good. If I knew that poser needed 2gigs to work with while rendering I would be able to make sure that is always available, but I have no idea how much poser wants :)P