Thank you BagginsBill

Windows Vista Business SR1
Acer Verizon M464 with Intel CoreDuo Quad processor
4 GB of Ram Installed
2 GB of dedicated video RAM
NVidia GeForce 9500 GT Graphics card

Poser is in c:Smith MicroPoser

Poser runtimes are:
d:Poser 8 content

d:Poser RuntimesApollo
d:Poser RuntimesHair
d:Poser RuntimesFurniture
d:Poser RuntimesScenes
d:Poser RuntimesPoser1-5
d:Poser RuntimesPoser 6
d:Poser RuntimesPoser 7
c:Smith MicroPoser 8

I have reported the problem to Smith Micro support and am now going to spend the South African public holiday with MsConfig to see if I can get this working. I really want to use Poser 8 because the renders look so much better than the ones I get with Poser Pro, and I like the new figures.

Poser 11 Pro, Windows 10

Auxiliary Apps: Blender 2.79, Vue Complete 2016, Genetica 4 Pro, Gliftex 11 Pro, CorelDraw Suite X6, Comic Life 2, Project Dogwaffle Howler 8, Stitch Witch