HI all

This is a great resource, and I sure do appretiate all your help.

Anyhow with VISTA, once in a blue Moon while rendering a scene with poser 7, I get this weird error.  "cannot load bad texture file"  or something like that...

Sometimes if I reboot and reload the scene I can continue rendering for a few more frames, then bang it happens again !!

This ever happen to anybody else.  You are rendering away making a movie/animation, then it stops cold with a grey screen and the bad texture alert??  Doesn't make any sense, my last problem involved Alice driving a hot car, Had done about 200 plus frames then this error pops out of no where.  Happened once before.

and then the texture disappears as well in the preview prior to rendering !?!?!

Anybody out there ever encounter a similiar error? 

 I've seen it happen, both in XP and Vista. But a reboot has always solved the problem for me. And I mean a proper reboot, not just shutting down Poser...

thanks I've done a simple shut down and reboot but it eventually always re occurs after a few renders.

I think for my next computer I'm going to build one and go with Linux for my OS

I would check your virtual memory and make sure its large enough , and check the administration logs for any system errors.   

Try Rendering as a Separate Process and see if that resolves the issue. (Edit General Preferences Render Tab)

Quote - ....Anybody out there ever encounter a similiar error? 

I don't have Vista but, Poser seems to have an extremely short list of "Error Descriptions."  So, when it runs out of memory it picks whatever is convenient.  Since textures are being loaded and that's probably where it ran out (textures take up a big slice of memory) it decided to grace you with an error blaming its lack of resources on the texture..  Wasn't that nice? :)

Most likely, that's all that happened - Poser ran out of resources and couldn't finish the render.  This will also result in textures getting "dropped" in your preview pane as well as Poser scrambles for resources and dumps stuff willy-nilly.

At least, that's my take on it.

Save your file (use an alt name just in case) and shut down Poser.  Terminate any background processes you may have and, if possible, clear out any cache files that might have been left open.  Restart Poser, clear the cache (again, just in case it didn't get a chance to) and re-open your file.  Try to free up as much available RAM as possible and, if you're running a bit low on Hard Drive space, try to clear some up by uninstalling unnecessary programs and data.  Processing one render can take gajillibillions of megs... or something like that.. as Poser crunches info and stores it in temporary caches.

(Note - You don't have to restart your computer, necessarily, if you have utilities that can clear up orphaned cache files (temp files.)  BUT, a restart will usually guarantee that space gets freed up and any little weird glitches caused by Poser encountering "render-interuptus" won't be around to interfere.)