OK.... here's one for you... Poser 4 crashes...... then unless I reload the programme.... I cannot get it running again..... I've copied both the INI file and the pz3 file from the pref directory..... even with them replaced.... no run... as a referance.... I'm on a PC... AMD K6-500, 192M ram, reasonably fast hard drives... no probs with space... What's happening? It usually occurs when I attempt to load a figure that I haven't tried yet... the usual "C exception errors".... but if it goes down whilst attempting to load the texture files... it's gone.... any attempt at assistance would be appreciated.... an awful lot of time spent in reloading.... sigh

Give it time. I've seen Poser "go away" for up to 15 minutes when loading certain "trouble" figures, then come back. And that's on a fast machine.

OK... so it's an impatience thing on my part..... Hrrrrrrmmmmmm.... I'll have to work on that then..... but it would crash... then even though a reboot occcured it'd blip the screen then die... I found the figure that was causing the problem... I think it was written for the Mac.. but that doesn't make too much sense..... sigh an onward we muddle... I'll drop in a quickie I did whilst it was running....

Oh no, more bad news about Poser 4 bugs. When is the update (Poser 4.1 or whatever it's called) due out?

Buck, I'm not sure.... But it seems to be when loading an "imperfect" figure... One thing that would be nice would be an abort option when loading..... as it usually gives a warning.. then goes down..... sigh

I have problems with my Poser 4 and I haven't even used it for 30 days. I feel your frustration. I can't even access the program now, and I've tried everything. Do you know anything about .dll files under Windowssystem?

I've had the same thing happen. You have to uninstall Poser and do a fresh install to get it back. If you have the disk space install Poser again in a different folder and if it crashes you can copy the Poser.exe and Poser.rsr files to your working directory. It saves you from having to reinstall the program every time it crashes. EdW

NK: Try reinstalling, if the .dll is one of poser's then this should do the trick. If not it's likely that the dll is one of wondoze's files. If this is the case then you'll find the file on your windoze cd or just about anywhere on the web (try a search at dogpile.com, they're usually pretty good for file finding). Failing all that scandisc might find a problem with a dodgy dll and might even put it right for you. (I use scandisc regularly anyway because a win95 bug causes the free disc space to be reported incorrectly, scandisc is the only solution MS have come up with yet, so if you think you've got tom.s of dosc space try scandisc first then look again).