My system has 3GB of RAM, of which my RAM monitor reveals 2GB to be available to Poser and other programs.  I guess I generally overlook that extra 1GB which the OS just sits on.  Possibly I should consider a RAM upgrade, though.  Absolutely no problems with Poser 7, however.  Does Poser 8 use that much more RAM than P7?

I've contacted Smith Micro about my problems, and they seem to be trying to zero in on some display driver problems which may specifically beset some nVidia cards.  So far, they've had me uninstall my nVidia drivers (Microsoft issued a Windows update which screwed up most display drivers, apparently?), then install the latest drivers from nVidia.  I've done this, and nothing has changed, as far as I can tell.  So far P8 hasn't crashed, but absence or evidence isn't evidence of absence.  That, and I've been using P7 for most things, because I got sick of losing work.

Fingers crossed that solutions to these and other problems will come about.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.