Installed Poser Pro last night. When I click on a Library folder to open it - Poof ! - Poser Pro just instantaneously disappears - no crash message - nothing.

Also have another phenomena going on I would describe as "cursor delay". Takes a second or two for the mouse to switch back from, for example, the move tool back to the pointer.

*Sigh

This may have something to do with my graphics card. Anyone else having similioar issues?

What type of graphics card??  Poser 6, 7 and Pro have been known to not play nice with the last few versions of ATI's Catalyst drivers...  I just downgraded to the 7.10 drivers and all is well!!

The Poser Pro weirdness I've been experiencing is trans maps (be it hair, eye brows whatever) don't render properly at all...  either not there at all or very faint.  Fortunately for me it's no big deal as the whole reason for Poser Pro for me is the ability to take the Poser scene into 3D Studio Max and once in Max all trans maps render properly.

All in all Poser Pro is very worthwhile for me.  Just like the good ol' Poser Pro Pack from way back in tha day when I was using it with Max 3.1!!!

I hope you can get this figured out!!

Gerard

Yep I updated my ATI Catalyst drivers a month or so ago. And after that the "cursor delay" phenomena started in Poser 7. Maybe I'll give that a try, downgrade back to the 7.10 drivers. 

Ati's drivers are a huge issues for anything with opengl. For the last six months. Locate you poser.ini file, and search for boxpicking=0, and change that to boxpicking=1

Save that, and restart poser, and odds are you'll find the sluggish issues are resolved.

Supposedly this month's new ati drivers are supposed to be a HUGE opengl fix, but the months already more then half over and they haven't materialized.

(And for what it's worth, Nvdia drivers have many similar or different opengl issues.)

Oh, and ati drivers are dated monthly, so a rollback one month would be to 8-3 drivers, not 7-10 drivers... those would be from October last year!

I had harsh sluggishness from 7.11 and up, so that's why I went back to 7.10...   they work fine for me!  THanks for the tip though Garree!!

Gerard

I'll try that too Garee, adjusting the poser.ini file. Thanks for the information on ATI I'll keep an eye  for this month's refreshed update.

I have this going on with the newest Nvidia drivers in P7 cursor problems and crashes without warning or an error message. Driver # 169.21 for Nvidia has been a death sentence so I rolled back to an earlier version. I know there is a new driver version up at Nvidia but I have been chicken to install it. I don't want to be installing and uninstalling drivers I don't think that is good for one's system. Does this poser.ini file trick work with Nvidia drivers or only for ATI?

Am I correct in stating that Poser Pro doesn't use a poser.ini file anymore? I've looked for it but couldn't find one. Found one for Poser 6, but not for PP. Can this boxpicking solution somehow be implemented in PP (Base) also?

Poser 7 put poser.ini in the C:Documents and SettingsOwnerApplication DataPoser 7Poser.ini
folder rather than the program folder .

Found it there for PP also, thanks!

Thanks to all, solved the sluggish mouse phenomena.   BUT.....(drumroll)

Here's my newest challenge. I have my content arranged in multiple runtimes on a separate drive. I had no trouble mounting my old Poser 6 and Poser 7 runtimes, and accessing the content within them, but any of the other multple runtimes will mount but won't display the content icons. For example, I can mount my Toons Runtime, I can click on the Character library folder within that runtime, then click on the Favorite Toons folder within it, but then none of the content icons display in the library. For some reason PoserPro "finds" the old Poser 6 runtime on my C drive and my old Poser 7 runtime on my F drive but it cant "find" any of my other customized runtimes which are also right there on my F drive. 

This is all new in Poser Pro never had this happen in any previous version of Poser and cant find anything in the documentation about what I'm doing wrong. Anyone else who's experienced this phenomena or knows how to resolve?

I've added all my external Runtimes to Poser Pro with no trouble at all. All my content is displayed in the same way as it ever was in P7.

Silly question but you have added your external Runtimes from within Poser by clicking the + (add Runtime) at the bottom of the runtime sidebar?

Gothwillowfan, I found a solution, there was a post over at Content Paradise about this. I did the same thing they did and it worked but I've never had to do it this way before and I haven't seen it described clearly in the documentation.

As an example , if you wanted a runtime to hold all your toon related content, you set it up this way: Create a folder named Toons. Within that folder create a folder named Runtime. Within that folder create a folder named Libraries. Then populate the Libraries folder with your content folders, character, pose, hair, etc. which contain your various toon content. Click the + (add runtime and choose the folder you named Toons to mount the runtime.

Funny thing is I didn't have to do this to add my old Poser 6 and Poser 7 runtimes.