BUT

NOW I am getting strange ghosting in the Preview Window. I load a Character say Robo Shark and then move the camera three times to adjust angle etc. EVERYTIME the cursor is in the Upper two thirds of the preview scene I get a composite of the last few scenes the camera looked at.

Move the cursor OUT of the preview window (or in the bottom third if you move the cursor back into the preview window) and I see just the loaded character.

Is this a bug? Something I have set wrong? Something I can hopefully turn off cause it annoys the crap outta me??

Any help? Ideas?

It's a graphics card issue. I have the same thing. If you turn off hardware acceleration and use the software render then this will go away. I have an ATi 5870 and this is what i had to do. My Nvidia card works fine though.

Right click in the preview window & choose SreeD from the list (it defaults to OpenGL). It's not a new bug either, it's been around since Poser5 & I don't think the developers can do anything about it as it's down to the ATI cards & their dodgy drivers.

It has happened a couple of times with some of the older nvidia drivers but they've been pretty good at fixing it in newer releases.

What video card do you have, KyReb?  If you have an nVidia, do not rely on the Windows updater to keep the video driver current;  Windows is always about three-four versions behind the times.  Go to nVidia's site to shop for the current driver.

I have the same problem as KyReb and have an open ticket about it at SM. I suggest you do the same.

Quote - I don't think the developers can do anything about it as it's down to the ATI cards & their dodgy drivers.

Now about the dodgy drivers...I wonder why my Maya, Max or Vue doesn't have any problems.
Those being 64bit apps also.

Poser Pro (the previous one) doesn't have any problems with Ati and opengl nor has silo. Though those are 32bit applications.

How on earth have those developers managed to do it with the dodgy drivers?

Or maybe they're just not using opengl at all :/
Vue is using for sure.

Thanks everyone for the help.

The Screed thing Lucifer mentioned cleared the problem.

 My Graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 5450 and no setting on it would clear the problem.

I hear Catalyst 10.3, which is now available on AMD/ATI's website, resolves the ghosting issue. You should be able to switch back to OpenGL once you have that driver version installed.

Things like that are why I have never used AMD processersor ATI Graphics, not for real work.

Don't worry, NVIDIA has just as many problems, they're just slightly different ones.

Have to give credit to Ati though for that their graphics cards are more advanced and produced with smaller nm (thus needing less watts) than nvidia which is on the other had publishing same old cards with just rebranded modelnumbers (2xx vs 3xx series). ;)

Quote - Don't worry, NVIDIA has just as many problems, they're just slightly different ones.

Exactly.

My experience is that ATI has a slight edge in video performance, NVIDIA in games. But these days, both are within fractions of the other, and both have issues of some type or another.

I can report that the Catalyst 10.3 did in fact solve this problem on my machine,

So that's TWO working solutions just by asking; this forum is great.

Quote - Now about the dodgy drivers...I wonder why my Maya, Max or Vue doesn't have any problems.
Those being 64bit apps also.

Poser Pro (the previous one) doesn't have any problems with Ati and opengl nor has silo. Though those are 32bit applications.

How on earth have those developers managed to do it with the dodgy drivers?

Or maybe they're just not using opengl at all :/

This is not so much about 32 or 64-bit. There are many OpenGL features, few applications are using all of them. Different applications use certain features in different ways, or to achieve different things. Newer versions of the same application might use newer features, as older features become deprecated or poorly supported by hardware vendors. That's why one application might suffer from a driver issue, while others don't.