I am using Poser 7 SR3, it tries to open and start running. but just quickly closes and do nothing.  Has anyone else has this problem.  I am using Vista Ultimate.

Thanks,

Wade

Check permissions (make sure Vista Permissions are set correct) then Preferences (or maybe reset Preferences would be better). If you are using an ATI Card, update your Driver.  If that does not work, contact Smith Micro Tech Support.

I know tons of people who are having probs of diff natures after using it

I can't even get mine to open. . . .I am in mourning. . .

no problem here -- running 7 on OSX 3.9. If anything, it;s rendering faster in Firefly.

I think the problem may be it is having issues with registring and doing the security check with the protection of Vista and Kaspensky to protect registry and virus.  It might be detecting the update

I gave up on sr3 after scenes I had been working on and saved, wouldn't load certain texture files when I loaded up the scene again. Ah well, 2.1 works fine for me shrugs

Hi, Vista Ultimate 64bit and Poser 7 sr3 here, works fine, only problem after sr3 updater, was video drivers yet again. Try switching preview rendering to SreeD, and accumulation buffer to software. I'm using nVidia but Ati also seems to cause problems for people.

regards...

Using SR3 with Poser 7 and Vista Ultimate 64bit now, too.

Poser 7 crashed all the time, i've moved the mouse into the 3D window over a figure.

I remembered, that i've installed just a few days ago a new Forceware graphics driver - 177.40 beta.
For a test i've reinstalled the WHQL certified 175.19 driver - and then Poser 7 was working again without a problem.
Reinstalled the 177.40 beta driver and Poser 7 crashed again immediatly after moving into 3D window.

I opened the Nvidia control panel with right-click menue on desktop. There, under 3D settings i've added "Poser.exe" and checked the different setting possibilities one after each other.
Then i've found, what i was looking for - the setting "Threaded Optimisation", which lets applications use the advantages of multiple CPUs/GPUs had to be set from "AUTO" to "OFF".
Saved this setting - and after that Poser 7 ran without crashing with this new 177.40 beta driver.

Seems like Poser 7 is using it's own system for multiple CPUs - or the new Nvidia beta driver isn't checked all the way through yet ... maybe it will work again with the "AUTO" setting after the beta turns into WHQL state.

If it's not known - for multiple CPU use in renders to speed up rendering, you just go to the "Render" tab in the Poser 7 preferences settings and  there under "Render Process" tab you can set the amount of CPU cores, to be used - depending on your CPU respectively.