Hi Does anyone know how to increase the allocated memory for poser? Thanks.

That's pretty much platform independant. Windows uses a swap file but Win98 has a different way to increase it to WinME/2K Mac is a whole different ball game again. A bit more detail please and someone here can help you.

Windows is generically the same regardless. It's all a swap file/page file/virtual memory, just called different things depending upon which you're using (with NT/2k also having kernel swap). For the most part, right click My Computer, select properties, and look for Performance (or Advanced, and then Performance button, something like that) and you should be able to change it there. If you're on a Mac, couldn't tell you. And if you're getting that as an error message in Poser and you're using Bill (Windows), I forget what it means, but it doesn't mean to increase your page file (unless maybe yours is riduculously small, with the "average" size being your ram + 15 megs for the swap file, i.e., 128 megs of ram would be 143 meg swap file, though this is hardly "correct" or the "only way" to do it). I haven't received that error ages, but I think it pretty much meant close it and start over again (someone wanna correct me on this if I'm wrong?).

Or, for Mac, in the finder, choose the program, select "Get Info" and look under "Memory" in the pop-up menu.

Thanks for your reply Metamorpho! I think creating a swap file would be a great idea. That brings a pathetic question - How do I do it? I have to admit that even tho i have been doing a lot a formatting lately (5 times in 6 months) because of the registry failures and other crap like that I am still not famililar with swap file creation. Could you provide more details about this swap file thing if you can. Once again thanks a lot.

Howdy, want to know how? Here's a crash course in page file management. :) Woulda responded earlier, but it's Mother's day, so I was spending time with said person(s). Anyhow, you have a screenshot of where you need to be. Based on that, you either have win98 or win95 (or maybe winme, but I REALLY hope you don't...please say you don't). Here's what to do: Click the dot that says "Let me specify..." etc, and set the minimum AND maxiumum to 0 megabytes (why? I'll explain shortly). Do that, it'll say "Are you sure? You NEED virtual memory! Your computer will suck without it!" and other things you can ignore. Just make it accept it and then reboot. When you come into Windows, immediately defrag (I hope it doesn't take too long). When you're done degragging, go back to that screen and change the size to something like um...well whatever you want. You can go the "recommened" route of adding 15 to your current amount of ram, or you can go with 300 or 500 or something similarly large (it won't hurt to go that way at all and in fact may be better). Make sure whatever you set it to that you set BOTH minimum and maximum to that (i.e. min and max both at 500). Now, if you have multiple harddrives, if they're both the same speed (RPM, like, 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM, etc), your swapping will go faster if you put the swap file on the other drive. So, in that case, you'd just change which hard disk it's going to use (i.e. d: or e: or whatever). If your other drive(s) is(are) slower than your primary, it may or may not be a whole lot faster. Once you've done all that, hit ok, if it whines at you and says it can do it better, just shut it up and make it take those settings, reboot, and that's it! You're done. Ok, now, I bet you or someone else is dying to know why I suggested that route. The reason you set it to no swap and then reboot and defrag is so that you get a single contiguous swap file. It'll set aside a small block of space on the drive and use only that for the swapping instead of 5 or 20 different spaces on the drive. This is a good thing to do it this way. It's more efficient since the drive doesn't need to move around as much to find the data. The reason you set a static swap file is for the same reason: it'll use only that block of space. Letting windows handle the virtual memory is a mistake, as is using a dynamic size. I hope that explains things clearly, and if it doesn't, I'll gladly clear up any questions you have, or try to anyhow. And now, a quick rebuttal. Metamorpho, a swap file does not have to be a partition. By default, a windows swap file/page file/etc is NOT a partition. It's just a chunk of space on the drive, or several chunks, depending upon whether it's a static file or not. It CAN be a partition, but doesn't have to be. On the other hand, if you're using something like Linux, it IS another partition, and based on what I know, it HAS to be another partition (but I'm definitely not a Linux/unix/*ix guru). Just thought I'd clear that up. :) That was a long message and I hope it helps someone!

Sorry, but I forgot about this, instead of setting them both to 0, just click the "disable virtual memory" box and that'll do it for you. Then reboot, defrag, and set the size to what you want. Everything else should go as stated previously. Sorry about that, but I just noticed that stupid check box.

Hi all! Thanks a lot for the suggestions!!! My Poser works better than ever :)