If one has an openGL problem in P7 how do ya fix it besides going into SreeD?

Thanks!

Poser 7 will work with the basic microsoft Opengl driver.  If your card driver is the problem try updating to the latest driver  or search the forum here for opengl driver . Some people seem to have better luck with a driver from about october 2007.

make sure you have loaded directx9 as well.

I just looked this up (and can't find it now) but someone mentioned this:

Open up the Poser 7.ini file in notepad.
It can be found under documents and settings/(your profile name)/application data/Poser 7
Find teh line
PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING 0
and change the 0 on the end to a 1.

It may help, but I'm slowly getting teh feeling that the fault has to do with the ATI card and drivers themselves.

I feel your pain, I have an ati x1600.  I've heard about nvidia cards having probs with Posers opengl implementation as well.  However, I have yet to run into an opengl issue with cinema4d on my ati.  Take that with a grain of salt.

-CG

I have a Nvidia card and poser is the only app I have with this issue. I have no problems in Vue.

OK, ATI/AMD have just released they're May Catalyst drivers. I've installed them and I'm getting a HUGE performance improvement with legacy OpenGL software like Poser 5, 7 and Wings3d. before this release only version 7.11 worked with these apps. good luck jdc

I recently upgraded to vista64 ultimate and because my Saphire xl1550 (ATI) card didn't worked well with it  I replaced it with an asus EN8800GT (nvidia) card. The first week I had nothing but trouble with all my graphic programs: rhino, hexagon, poser, uvmapper even vue6 refused to run in the opengl hardware mode, I loaded the latest drivers but nothing worked until I uninstalled all the drivers and utilities like gameOSD and smartdoctor and did a fresh install with the original drivers and no utilities (I didn't buy it for games!) Before that I also used a program called driver cleaner which was mentioned in another thread, to remove all the old ATI drivers and registrykeys.
After that everything worked like a charm.

You can find driver cleaner here:

www.drivercleaner.net/

 But I can't garantee anything and you get a warning to be careful with program.

good luck.

Bopper.

I am surprised that I'd have so much driver trouble given I have only had Nividia based cards installed on this machine. I could understand having trouble if I had ATI drivers once installed but I never have.

I hear mixed things about using a driver cleaner but they have been from those that may have not followed the directions I don't know I am always chicken when using utilities that screws with drivers. Since I also have a Nvidia chipset on my motherboard and I am afraid that this driver cleaner will remove those too. Can you isolate the display drivers from the motherboard drivers with this Driver Cleaner?

Thanks!

Can you isolate the display drivers from the motherboard drivers with this Driver Cleaner?

I'm afraid I can tell you very much about this program, I just used it because I suspected there were some ATI-drivers left, you can specify the drivers in a searchlist, but if you didn't had any other cards installed before you nvidia card I don't recommend to use it. As you said: this program can screw up things. For me it was a last try to get rid of my problems, but I suspect that reinstalling the original drivers actually solved the problems.

Bopper.

I haven't installed the new Nvidia drivers yet so I've no idea if they've solved the problem, I should really do that I guess. There was another thread around here that suggested creating a new profile for Poser in the card control panel and turning everything non essential off.

Worked for me :)