I'm running into problems with memory I keep getting a message to save my work and to allocate more memory to poser... When I save it  I'll try to open it again and all my work is gone ...... ...Help me Feed this memory addiction my computer has...

Unless I'm mistaken that was the message it gives when the hard drive needs defragging as there's not enough large areas of free space left for it to work in. Feel free to laugh at me if I'm wrong ;)

Quote - Unless I'm mistaken that was the message it gives when the hard drive needs defragging as there's not enough large areas of free space left for it to work in. Feel free to laugh at me if I'm wrong ;)

You're not wrong, Lucifer.  This happens when the hard-drive starts getting full and needs a defrag.  Since I use external runtimes with plenty of room on the hard drive, I don't get this message any longer.  I used to get it all the time in P4.

If you're using XP you can change the size of your paging file using the Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance tab.  Click on the See Basic Information about your Computer and then on the Advanced Tab.  Under Performance, you'll see a Settins button.  Click on that and then on the Settings button on the Performance Tab.  Click on the Advanced tab again.  You'll see three areas.  The first two should be set to Programs to allow system memory to be optimized for the programs you use.  The third one, Virtual Memory, is where you'll change the amount of disk space allocated for the paging file.  I have mine set at 4 Gigs on all of my drives.  Click on the Change button and it will bring up a list of all your drives (physical and virtual) and give you options for changing the paging file size for all drives.  If you're not comfortable allocating a lot of disk space, just set the paging file on your C drive to the recommended amount and then set the rest of them to System Managed.  This will give you the same paging file allocation on all drives.

I get that all of the time because I am on a computer that has only 384 MB of Ram.

When I use poser, because I'm behind a router I turn off my virus scanner, firewall and can't browse.

I also lower my bucket size from 32 to 16.

Another thing I have to do is resize my textures using bicubic resample to where the texture is 1024 pixels on the longest side. I find that anything over 1024 pixels that my computer chokes up.

If you use XP and have lots of memory,  try this link:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2678977

Try this one too.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2516735

So it wouldn't have anything to do with the General preferences setting render memory Memory limit buffer? I've been scanning the forums for answers....

This is what I do:
Go to control panel
System Properties
Advanced
Performance
Settings
Advanced
Virtual memory
Change
Custom size - then change the Initial size to a larger number (I've found that it doesn't need to be much larger) and make sure you increase the maximum size a little also. Then hit set.  You may need to reboot after that.

I don't know if this is right or wrong, but it always works for me.

PS - I'm using Windows XP

Any Mac tips? I get this problem alot too.  :(

bB

Poser has had Memory issues, in the past, that were cleared up with Service Releases.

I'd make sure you are running the latest update to the version you have.

You know, when I first saw this thread I thought it said "How do I allocate more money to Poser6" and I thought to myself, well Meterman we're all trying to figure that one out, if you find an answer to it, let us all know :) And then I saw it said Memory...Well, I hope you can figure out that problem too! :) 
I have that problem with Poser 6 a lot than with 5. The problem with defrag to me is it takes forever to do. My brother gave me this holiday an external 80 gig drive that looks like a book so I'm thinking of using that for backing up my Runtime as mentioned above and maybe that will free up a ton of space. Then I'll have to buy another one I'm sure. 
Off the subject a bit, one thing I did notice was when I sorted through like my "Pose" folder, I started putting the folders into catagory folders. As in if I have a group of character files, I placed them into a folder I created in the Poser Pose directory and so on for clothing and shoes etc. This seemed to cut back on the time it took for Poser to start up...maybe it was a fluke but after I "cleaned up" my runtime a little bit, reorganized it, Poser did load much faster.