Hello again everyone, a new problem has come up for me recently.  I've been working on an image for the past 2-3 days but poser has been giving me problems.  Whenever I try to conform a clothing figure (or hair figure) to viki and I've tried several now, if I click the OK button on the pop-up box the clothing will conform but the box will remain.  Then Poser will hang and I'll see that blue spinning wheel go around for a few minutes and until it goes away, if I try to do anything windows will say poser is not responding.  Is anyone familar with this problem?

Vicki 3 or 4? And is it current hair and clothing?  Reason I ask, the newer content, especially the hair, is equipped with morph dials which correspond to the different figures you are conforming to.  Double check if this isn't the case.

It was Viki 4.2 and yes it was newer clothing and hair.  I didn't used to have this problem, it's popped up in the last week or two.

Something has changed but I can't figure out where or why.  I am assuming that V4.2 did validate it's installation, so the only thing I can recommend is to click the update Victoria 4.2 base icon on your desktop to see if that corrects the problem.  (Hopefully you do have the Update V4.2 icon generated from your installation).

Thank you hborre, that seems to have solved the problem.

I'm having a similar problem with Poser myself as of recently. Sometimes when I load a non-conforming hair prop and either try to change lights (by using the Delete Lights) script or trying to render it (having Raytracing on), it acts like it's busy and just waits. If I click on it too many times I get the "(not responding)."  However, the problem is not with V4 for me.

Are you using Poser 7?

-R.

Yeah, I am using poser 7.

Ah, okay. Maybe it's something with the service pack on Poser 7? Just guessing though. I see you say the problem your having is resolved. That is great. :)

-R.

Actually my problem is only partly resolved.  It seems to be linked to a custom character I've been working on.  I've only been saving her body morph with poser to the library and now when I reload that pose, all the problems come back.  Looks like I'm going to have to read up on how to manually make a pose file for the morph...

Oh, okay. I'm sorry to hear you're still having problems with the character you're working on. I'm having a similar problem in with everytime I load a certain hairprop on my character, it seems to render really slow and eventually acts like it's going to lock up.

The only reason I think of for the issue you've mentioned is perhaps something with the paticular prop? Or something with the service pack on Poser 7.  I guess one could always reinstall Poser - but I'm hoping you nor I have to do that. LOL :)

Please keep is updated as to if you find a resolution to the problem!

--R.

Dunno if this will help, but I've had my textures on a back up drive once, then I moved them to my C: drive, after doing this and telling Poser where my textures were, sometimes if I have a card reader for my SD cards, for some reason it tries to search for the textures on it, even though it shows as an E: drive.  What's worse, it happens if I have my MP3 player hooked up and will even cause Windows to freeze when it boots until I unhook and reboot.

Poser would just sit there and never load anything, just act like it was searching, then if it did do something, it would bring up the typical Windows "can't read disk" error and neither "abort", "cancel", or "retry" would do anything until I unplugged the offending drive.

I also had a problem of having my textures backed up on my second drive with the exact same name as the one on C: and Poser would hang, for some reason it wants to search the backup drive and my thumb drives for EVERYTHING until I either unplug the drives or rename the directories.

It's a real pain in the @$$ :P