This is a new one to me. I'm running Poser 7 with the latest patch. REcently, whenever I go to conform something, delete something, anything at all that requires a confirmation (i.e. confirm or cancel), Poser freezes up completely. Closing out and restarting poser wont' fix this. Only rebooting will fix it.... until the next time I open poser. If I've started it again without rebooting, the same problem happens.

Has anyone else experienced this or maybe knows what might be causing it?

Edited to add. I'm running Windows XP home with 2gigs of ram. When I'm using poser I tend to close out my background tasks and extra windows, though it runs fine with a browser and IMs going.

First let me say I am not a computer expert, so someone else may have a more

definitive answer for you. That being said I find that if I don't routinely (like once a week) clear out junk files, cleanup my hard drive and defrag, I will have all kinds of weird glitches. I have been using a program for several years called System Mechanic and without it I would be dead in the water. One of the things it does is clean up your registry. I have found that the bigger the files I work with the more corrupted my system becomes. Working with 400 to 500 meg photoshop files, then rendering in Poser etc. it does not take very long for your system to get out of wack.

Attached Link: http://www.ccleaner.com/

I recently had the same issue actually.  I cleaned out my Poser preferences and rebooted.  I haven't had the same problem since.  (I, too, am running XP with 2 gigs of ram.)  Anytime Poser starts to behave strangely, I clean up the preferences and that ususally solves the issue.

Instructions for clearing out Poser preferences can be found at the following link:

http://support.smithmicro.com/cs/smkb.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2076&p_created=1141804800&p_sid=R4Ni_M7j&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEwJnBfcHJvZHM9MTI2LDEzNiZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9Mi4xMzYmcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3NjZl9vc19zZWxlY3Q9JnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9cHJlZmVyZW5jZXM*&p_li=&p_topview=1

Argh!  Leave it to Smith Micro to have a mile long link for this!  Sorry...

LOL, huge link.  I'm going to check it out right now. Thanks for the help guys! love

I dunno. I don't trust registry cleaners. Be careful with them. :)
And that link is HUGE!

  Preferences Clearout Link

There. If the link here works, then just edit yours out, LadyMari.

Well, none of this fixed my problem. I deleted my preferences. I went to defrag my hard drive but it didn't need it (I do it at least twice a month anyway). I cleaned up old registry entries (the program I used showed me what they were and I knew what programs they used to be attached to). I even rebooted after all that.

No go. When I opened poser for the first time (after a reboot this time, mind), I needed to reset my preferred state. When I went to delete Simon, it froze up again on the confirmation. I just read another thread with someone else having the exact same problem. What in the world is going on with Poser?

It may be time for you to reinstall the whole thing.  I hate it when that happens.  I thought I was going to have to do that myself, but the other stuff did the trick for me....at least for now.  I have no doubt this is one of those issues that will pop up again at some point.

I had this problem as well!  It was my ATI drivers! ARRRGH!!!

I upgraded to v8.6 (DRIVER ONLY INSTALL) and used the traytools app (from guru3d.com).  The traytools app does pretty much everything the full fledged ATI control panel does, but with much less overhead.  Poser has been solid ever since.

Ciao,
              CG

I've been talking with Smith Micro tech support. They told me there is a known issue with my video card driver and suggested I try rolling back to a previous version, though there are issues with that one as well. Well, the issues with the older version seem to be the lesser of two evils and my poser seems to be working like it should thus far. I'm going to keep an eye on it and see what happens. My card is the Nvidia GeForce 7300GS.

Hi movieGraphix!

If there are troubles with your video drivers, try to switch from openGL  to spree in Poser and see if that helps.
If problem is still there i dont think its a driver issue.

In Poser 7 its also good do reduce the numbers of undos in your preferences (5 is good).

Personally I think P7 is very slow and unstable, scenes that crashes P7 for me renders perfectly in P6.

Regards / Jonny

It's not an openGL problem. I already was using Sree and reduced my undos to 7. In fact, that was Smith Micro's first suggestion. But, as I said, I was already doing that.

Poser hasn't crashed once since rolling back the driver but, we shall see. I've never had a problem with P7 until this started up, outside of the issues with V4 but that was solved by turning off external morph binaries.

Well, it's not the graphics card. I mean, it could still be but I won't know until Nvidia updates the driver. The rollback worked for a bit but now it's back to freezing whenever I need to confirm something like conforming or deleting a prop/figure.