I've had problems, but they were due to a major conflict between my firewall and Poser 8. Once that was sorted out, P8 ran well, very well. Except for the library, it's still giving me problems, but I've just switched it off and use an external one, eXtended Library, that one works great.

But.... I must confess I do not have the latests drivers and updates installed at all. My WindowsXP isn't up to date at all, my gfx card drivers aren't the most recent ones either. Why not? Simply because they do work well. My machine runs great and why risk problems by updating. I'm pretty sure that most people experiencing problems with P8 have everything nice and neatly up to date, since that's the first advice given and still P8 is a mess for them. Why fix something that isn't broken?

I'm sure that the Poser testing team is doing their best, but as with every testing team they're limited in what they can do. I'm still convinced that the testing team doesn't reflect the community at all, nor do they really push a new release as much as should be done. I don't blame them for that, it's almost impossible with such a differce community of users.

For those of you with numerous crashes, as I have had, report them to the tech support and they will help you to indentify what is causing the problems. It's most likely a conflcit between Poser and some other application and then it can be solved. If you don't report it, no one can fix it either. But.... don't buy into every advice they give you, some they gave me were a bit off the wall and I didn't follow those leads since it wasn't part of the problem at all. In the end the main problem was solved due to me actively working together with them. I quickly identified that the problem was either the firewall or the anti-virus and we focussed on that, the problem was solved in no time.

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Food for thought.....
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