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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 10 8:20 am)
Quote - At first I thought it was my drivers, so I reverted back to an older driver but it still happened. Then I thought maybe it was the program so I re-installed.
You are not the only one, this has started happening to me as well lately and I've taken the same kinds of steps including reinstalling Poser and rolling back to an older video driver. I'm more than halfway to thinking conspiracy theory stuff as to why it's suddenly started to be this unstable, I've been a heavy Poser user with this config for a couple of years and it was pretty well behaved until maybe this month. It is stable under SreeD but preview is far slower than OpenGL :/
I think it may be hardware and/or heat. Have you just added memory? 3gigs with the switch? I'd blow out the case with compressed air. Especially the power supply. Reseat all memory,,, maybe drop one gig. Poser uses a ton of power... close everything else.
Defrag,, dump temp files,,, too much to remember for me.
This started happening to me after updating my nvidia drivers to 178.24. Poser was rock solid before that, it hadn't crashed in MONTHS.
The only way I can work with a scene now is to set the preview settings to Sreed>Software buffer, disable hardware shading, save settings. Then reset back to OpenGL>Software (always crashes when the buffer is set to hardware), re-enable hardware shading, save settings.
After doing that, the scene is smooth and responsive, but I have to go through these hoops EVERY TIME I load a new scene.
Ok, after reading a post by mariner here, and some fiddling, I SEEM to have fixed my problem.
I added a profile for Poser 7 in the nvidia control panel, under "Manage 3d Settings>Program Settings". The only thing I changed from the global settings was turning the "threaded optimization" OFF. Turning it ON seemed to preserve stability as well, however, camera tracking was VERY slow and choppy, and my cpu usage never dropped below 50%... Turning it OFF, on the other hand returned poser to it's normal smooth operation.
I opened and played around with about a dozen different scenes and it hasn't crashed yet.
Hope this helps somebody.
That sounds like it's worth a try, thanks. Might fix another app or two that I have never been able to get to work!
Quote - Ok, after reading a post by mariner here, and some fiddling, I SEEM to have fixed my problem.
I added a profile for Poser 7 in the nvidia control panel, under "Manage 3d Settings>Program Settings". The only thing I changed from the global settings was turning the "threaded optimization" OFF. Turning it ON seemed to preserve stability as well, however, camera tracking was VERY slow and choppy, and my cpu usage never dropped below 50%... Turning it OFF, on the other hand returned poser to it's normal smooth operation.
I opened and played around with about a dozen different scenes and it hasn't crashed yet.
Hope this helps somebody.
Wow....way to fix my problem! You rock. Will play around with it a bit to make sure, but it seems to me that this one single fix has made Poser happy again :)
Thanks all for the replies
Cheers!
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I'm having an odd issue with Poser lately. Seems I am able to load characters but as soon as I move my mouse to do something with them, or adjust something the program crashes.
Sometimes it doesn't even give me a error message, it just crashes to desktop. It's starting to get really frustrating as I am trying to finish a animation I started ages ago and these crashes just make me want to throw my computer out the window.
What I have noticed is that it happens more with V4 and everytime with M4 than with other characters (though is not immune to others), and most of the time it happens, I hear my hard drive, as though it is trying to load something, or reading something, or saving something.
At first I thought it was my drivers, so I reverted back to an older driver but it still happened. Then I thought maybe it was the program so I re-installed.
I'm running Windows XP 32bit with 3GB RAM and a whole lot of hard drive space. I have all the service releases installed. My video card is a gForce 8800 GTS. Direct X is updated as well.
Any thoughts?
cheers