3/3/08

I have Windows Mediacenter on an otherwise perfectly good computer. When I bought the computer, Mediacenter was advertised by Gateway as having all the features of XP Pro, but it doesn't. The /3GB switch (installed as per the MS page on the subject) does not work on my Mediacenter computer. 

Is anyone else using Poser 7 on Mediacenter? After researching Mediacenter a little more closely, it seems to have a lot of conflicts with a number of graphics programs. Mediacenter considers itself to be XP Pro, so one cannot upgrade/sidegrade to XP Pro (it fails, and most forums strongly warn against the attempt). A number of people attempting a clean install of XP Pro on systems designed for Mediacenter say that it will not install at all.

It is possible to upgrade a computer with Mediacenter to Vista. The question is, how much memory do the various 32bit Vista versions allow Poser to use? Right now I am trapped at the 2GB limit (though my Poser.exe process crashes at 1.31GB, certainly well before it reaches 1.4 GB - I have 4GB installed - I render in a seperate process with only one thread).

A way forward with this computer is not obvious. I would like to get it working as well as possible, but keep it against the possible future of rendering on several computers over a network.

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.