Oh, Hm, in my humble opinion Poser 7 with SR3 in the end was the absolute best Poser up to now. Ok, P8 has better lighting and is faster rendering. But this is for nothing if you can't load and arrange the content correctly ... and sadly with SR3 for P8 they have demolished the classical ERC cross talk as also the deformer chains. So using V4 Poser 8 is now a absolute one figure show as far as you are not common with poser'S structure and having a really good poser file editor to fix most of that rubbish in a saved pz3 file.

I hope you have installed to SR-packs. As said than at least Poser 7 should work flawless.

For your Win7 problems with saving etc. Ok, I stayed with XP. For me the absolute last windows version without too much problems while MS is doing more and more paternalism. Their complete stuff against spam, viruses and other such crap is only eating up the ressources but doesn't help really. In the opposite it's making simple things worse as can be.

So as a hint for that saving blockage never ever install software or content there MS wants you to do. Since Win98 and NT I have never more installed anything into the program directory or how it now named.

I everytime use a directory completely outside of any MS stuff. If applicable even on a harddrive partition which is not holding windows system stuff. Separat harddrive as the additional advantage of better easier backup possiblities.

And never store your stuff in the MS build socalled homedirectories. Make your own structure outside of amy windows system given directories.

In the windows given directories MS is doing what they call security, restricting write permissions and more of this idiotic crap. This will not stop any maleware so it'S ridiculous. But it is stopping your work, e.g. saving poser content easily.

And this problem are the same equla if you use Poser8 and win-32bit or poser pro 2010 and win-64bit. So PPro will not change anything to the better whatP8 is not running well.

Hm, marketing of SM and quickly earning money is the one side but the techicians are the other side. And these are mostly the same as in the times with the other companies. And therefor a lot of bug in poser are cultivated for a long time. With wine is the rule how older the better. With software this rule reads as what is a bug long enough becomes/is declared to a feature. And poser is a really featureful software ... :blushing: