I was more fortunate than some, and managed to download SR3 without any hassle.

I've been experimenting with it for a week and have to say I'm not happy, for 3 reasons:

1. Textures seem to take much longer to load into a scene.
2. Rendering times have doubled compared with SR2... sometimes take even longer.
3. Poser falls over at about the rate it used to with P6. When running SR2, hardly a crash!

Anyone else?
Thanks

DigitalDreamer

The only time I've noticed a texture taking longer than usual to load is when I use a tif instead of a jpg, and then Poser seems to kack a bit. But it's not crashed yet, and I've been giving it some pretty heavy usage of late on a big animation project. I'm running 10.4.11.

Bingo. Same here. Big screw up. Contact Smith Micro. Download SR2,1.
Save your textures,libraries,geometries by adding an O at the front of the name and uninstall poser. Reinstall poser with minimum load-up, and load up SR2,1 and reload your libraries, textures, and geometries by removing the "O" from the front of them and render away.

SR3 almost crippled my production line. Until I uninstalled it. :lol:

SR3 is working fine with my Poser7. Some things have changed (other result of the lights, by sample), but it renders faster than before. But some older Phyton-Scrips doesn´t work anymore with SR3. These ones from face_off I have changed against his upgraded files form May ago, and the scripts are working fine again.

SR3 has made my render times go from 1-2 hours to 24+ hours (I ended up just doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del after an overnight render would not even finish) ---wow.  SR3 seems completely worthless to me.  Maybe some are not having this problem, but it has been a royal pain in the butt for me, I really suggest not installing it. 
     I have read another thread here where people are saying -the developers can't test on every hardware config. etc....,  and other excuses, possible workarounds, and other nonsense, but this is unacceptable. 
     I installed SR3, reinstalled SR3, uninstalled Poser, did a clean install, reinstalled SR3, defragged, increased my VM, blah blah blah.  I spent nearly 2 whole days trying to figure out what the problem was- is it my recent windows update, my graphics card update, and was about to do a reformat- thankfully I did not.  SR3 is worthless, don't do it. 
     I am back to 2.1, thank god I saved it and the render time is humming along nicely again.  Just say no to SR3.

I was having the same Problem and posted to the other thread on page one of it. Not testing to all configurations is BS when you have an off-the-shelf machine with stock parts used world-wide. Mine is like that. It doesn't even run Vista, just good old Windows XP. Smith-Micro was clueless after I sent them the system specs. "It should work."

I uninstalled   poser and reloaded, losing a whole week of production.  You aren't alone in in the mess.

I find that Poser 7 is much more stable with SR3 on my Vista than it ever was.  It still has it's occasional freezes but overall it's much better. 

SR3 renders faster than ever on my machine. Textures load faster, not much in the way of crashes so far, and pretty much everything seems to work better now.

But make sure you have the latest drivers for your system, especially graphic display. That definitely helped me.

And my OS and Poser 7 install were very fresh and uncluttered when I installed SR3. Don't know if that had anything to do with the good results or not, but just thought I'd mention it.

"But make sure you have the latest drivers for your system, especially graphic display. That definitely helped me."

"And my OS and Poser 7 install were very fresh and uncluttered when I installed SR3. Don't know if that had anything to do with the good results or not, but just thought I'd mention it."

I did both of these and then some, and I have an off the shelf machine that I am sure is quite common.

I am on a mac but i you go to the SM Knowledge base there is all kinds of info there. Things about setting the preview pane under rendering settings (this was the info I was looking for). But there is other info that pertains to Windows and changing the prefs file (poser.ini) that relates to windows and your graphics card. The one that seems to be popular is camera performance (jumpy). The KB article I grabbed states to change PREVIEW_OGL_HWSHADING_INTRACKING from 1 to 0 for nVidia cards and ATI cards and delays in mousing over by changing PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING to 1 from 0. There was other stuff in the KB, but it all pretained so windows so I did not pay attention to it.

Change at you own risk. I am only the messenger for what I found so don't balme me if things get worse :)

Quote - I did both of these and then some, and I have an off the shelf machine that I am sure is quite common.

Well, you got me there. My system is not so common. AMD Dual Opteron I'm afraid, with 64-bit Vista. As I've seen several other posts from Vista users that have said they are not having problems, maybe SR3 was about making things work better for Vista, and they forgot about making things work for everyone?

Just a thought.

I´m still on Win Xp and it´s better with SR3 now....

Am using Win XP SP3 with P7 SR3.  No problems, render time not longer, no hiccups.  All previous versions were more dodgey for me.

Just dumped SR-3 from my system and did a complete System restore to a time before the SR-3 update.  With SR-3 My production time just about halted.  Pz-3's that loaded flawlessly in SR-2 took longer to load and when they did load,  were void of any textures.  30-60 seconds later the textures do load,  then the first command you try with the mouse,  causes the program to crash and return you to windows desktop.

Images from the various runtime libraries also loaded meshes and props void of texture and I was told to expect this when ones runtime library is huge.  Odd this never happened with SR-2

I have XP pro and did ugrade to the lastest Video drivers for my Nvidia PXC Express 8500 graphics card,  all the suggested box toggles in preferences were set as recommended and I still had prodcution loss.

Did anyone else notice that for the first time in all the SR upgrades the SR-3 update loaded a program into the Add/Delete program in control panel right under the Poser-7 icon?

I thought this strange as well as the option window after SR-3 loaded offering you choices to use the preset setting of SR-3 or load the program with you personal settings intact. Doing the former reuires you to reload all your runtime libraries..

This update has more problems than benifits a far as I am concerned and I hope SR-4 is more stable than SR-3

Ug, why didn't I search the forums before installing?

OK, so I've got the issues with face-off's scripts (everything else seems fine). Anyone know how to actually use the python menu with SR-3? If I can't use those scripts, poser is worthless, and Daz studio is just as good....

Mamba you need to answer your own question (why didn't I search the forums) and search again. I've already answered that one 10 times. Sorry  :)

Try searching for your error.

Or - try going to the author's site. Face_off has put up a new version weeks ago, but you didn't look there did you?

LOL

Use the force, Luke!

Ok the answer is columns=3

I've gone back to SR2.1

bagginsbill, I think that fix only applies to windows users. I'm on a mac (tiger) and I couldn't find any lines with col or column in it.

However, my problem was resolved after reinstalling the patch. When I did that, I let it delete my previous settings, which the first time, I had told it to keep them.

As for redownloading the scripts, I got them from daz, and there haven't been any updates there ( I did redownload from their site, and reinstalled it, but that didn't do anything). I didn't see anything on the physics-calc site about updates for the V4 realism shader. Am I looking at the wrong site?

PilotHigh, my mac is  an intel mac pro, and my lights are the same as they were before. I haven't actually noticed any slowdown in renders either, but the texture loading seems to be annoyingly slow. I did notice that because my settings had been reset, I had to fix my preferences to use 4 threads. I grabbed it so I could see rsr thumbnails, and was very happy with that part working:P

mamba-negra after the update to SR3 my lights were OK as well. But after using it for a while and having other problems all I did was create a spotlight and that is what showed up. I tried to recreate it but I couldn't. I also noticed that when loading a prop or changing a texture my character's pose would go nuts until I passed the cursor over it. It is just plain annoying. The one thing I can't live without is the undo and it seems to be greyed out 50% of the time.

*renders crash and now Poser is speaking some other language,

*That's german, I think loaded the german update by mistake or something went terrible wrong at SM.

I loaded the update on my old laptop but I didn't get any errors. perhaps a bit slower, but the laptop was slower than my desktop anyway. (I have poserpro on my desktop)

Bopper.

My renders take longer too with sr3. Also it takes ages to load the textures. It's really starting to get on my nerves. Great, poser is really stable and really slow. Great work you Feebs!  Not to mention the spamming that the dweebs at smith micro like to do. "Buy Poser pro!" times 100.  No thanks.

I had to reinstall Poser7 and run the last update from efrontier (SR2) to get my program acting normally again. Rendering had slowed way down and the handling of lights and skin shaders was all wrong after Smith Micro's update. They really, really need to read threads like these and make improvements pronto. I have similar problems with the Poser Pro that I bought and so for the moment, I really don't like the program and wish I hadn't spent the $$$ on it.

Hmm..Looks like I have to un install Poser7 sr3 too. How ever I can't remember if the uninstall deletes everything in my P7 main runtime or will it leave some geometry and cr2 files intact? I have made some clothing, textures and props, and I wouldn't want to loose those items.

No complaints here except something that I know is machine specific with Poser 7 SR3