When maneuvering around the Preview screen (ie, rotating the view), often the screen will flash, go completely white for a second or two, then go back to normal. I've tried changing the OpenGL settings, don't want SreeD (too slow), and now I've run out of tweaks. BTW, the OpenGL display works just fine on all my other 3D applications (Carrara, Lightwave, D|S), so I know it's not a hardware/OpenGL limitation.

Anyone know what's going on? Thanks.

Have you tried setting hardware acceleration on your video card setting to a lower setting ? That sometimes helps.

On my system what you describe happens when going from a render back to preview. I just assumed that Poser was busy doing something and had to wait for a screen redraw.

 What system are you running, I've seen this happen in the past and it was due to the graphics driver crashing.

Do you know your video card make and model?

Then of course the standard "are you running all the latest service packs?".

Attached Link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/easily-disable-vistas-aero-before-running-an-application-such-as-a-video-game/

If so, try to disable it.
(Or let Poser 8 disable it for as long as it runs)

Fixed some "whiteouts" Poser 8 had when switching rooms.

Yeah, I think I'm good on all the driver/service pack issues. Brand new computer, latest packs/drivers, and like I say it works like a champ with all of my other 3D apps. For some reason, Poser has always been an exception.

For some reason, Poser has always been an exception.

Yep.

Everything (Max,Zbrush,Wings,Photoshop) was perfectly fine even with the "old" drivers on my 7 months old laptop.
Only Poser 8 needed the latest. (And is still unhappy sometimes)

Thanks for the Aero tip, but it didn't fix the problem.

it might be a graphics card problem, i've never had this problem myself with P7 or P8.

Thanks, but I tend to think that if it's a "graphics card problem" with a graphics card that works with every other application, then it's actually more like a "Poser problem". I've had Poser since some of the very early versions, and never really use it. I've always had nothing but problems with Poser. Different versions, different machines, but I'm always running up against problems.

I agree that it's a Poser problem... no other application does this. I wait until Poser sorts itself out, which it does most of the time. And then, sometimes it doesn't.
Makes a strong case for ... save - save - frequently save.

I don't know if anyone else has found this but I tend to have much less problems if Poser is the very first thing I load from a fresh restart. That includes not opening a browser or anything. After Poser loads, then load the other stuff.

I found if I don't use the large camera changing controls, and instead use the controls on the top right of the main screen the issue stops - I haven't used the larger controls for moving since Poser 7.

Poser 5 use to do this to me many times. Personally, I think it was just the program giving me a hard time.  S Also, memory issues. Like stated above Save often

How much memory are you running and are you running other things along with Poser?