First time poster, I know of no where else to turn.  Here is my issue with Poser.

Last year I grew tired of Poser, and un-installed it to clean up my hard drive a bit.

Still with me?  Good!

I now want to install Poser once again, but I am getting flustered. 

Once Poser is installed and opened for use, the Poser guy that is usually there, is invisible!

If I click on the various parts of his body (guessing on where to click)  I get the normal part outline.

When I render, the computer just freezes.

I have reinstalled an older driver for my video card, and also played with every option there hoping to select some setting that would bring back poser.

Is this weird or what?

Thanks for any help!

Just guessing.... It's possible that your previous installation left some pieces laying
around, especially in the system registry.  

I'd uninstall Poser, then use an application like CrapCleaner (free from CCleaner.com)
to remove unused registry entries and unused DLLs.  

Then install Poser again in a different folder than you had before.

It sounds like your Preferences may be FUBAR. You may just need to Reset your Preferences to resolve the issue. With out more details, I can not offer any other suggestions. If Resetting Preferences does not work you should email Tech Support at Smith Micro with details.

@ Ockham
Too funny. I've been using CCleaner for years and never knew it was called CrapCleaner...that it is!

Thanks for the replies.

Here is a screen cap so I can illustrate my problem.

delete the ui prefs.xml file thats in the program folder for Poser 5 .
Runtimeprefsposer ui prefs xxxx yyyy.xml    where x and y are screen resolution.  

Try switching to SreeD Preview... looks like OpenGL is not Rendering. If that resolves it, you need to go to your Chip Manufacturer's Site and download then install the latest Driver.

Is that Poser 4? If so, what loads initially is preferredState.pz3 in Runtimeprefs. I'm not sure what problem would cause that effect though I've had it happen on occasion. You can try deleting the invisible figure and see if you can load another one successfully. If it works, goto Edit->General Preferences and select "Launch to Preferred State" then press "Set Preferred State." Exit and reopen Poser and it should return to whatever scene you set. You can also try just renaming the preferredstate.pz3 to something like preferredstate.pz3.bad. Poser may complain when you start it but you should get a blank scene that you can customize and save as your new preferred state.

I think it has something to do with the RSR file being corrupted.  I believe if you delete the RSR for this character from your directory, that Poser will rebuild it and you will be fine.

 You could try reinstalling Poser iin a completely different location (preferably another drive if you've got it) and see if that helps. Otherwise, UVDan's suggestion is probably correct, this could well be caysed by a corrupted Poser.rsr (not to be mistaken with the .rsrfiles Poser uses for Thumbnails. Poser.rsr is a VITAL part of Poser 4 (and PPP - PoserPRoPack - not to be mistaken for the Pro Pakc for Poser 7... I REALLY Wish they would have picked another name for the "new" Pro Pack to distinguish it from the one all us oldtimers know...))

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he will be back to let us know one way or the other. May well be the rsr though. I used to set them to read-only to avoid the problem.