Poser crashes when in a  scene i have a lot of figures imported (human figures).It can render the scene normally but after that when i want to return to preview mode  it crashes.Can i do sth to fix that??

Thanks

Always save before rendering.
Get more memory, maybe?

What memory?Ram memory??I have 4 gb

What other applications do you have running at the same time?

Mybe internet explorer but sometimes.But this happens even if poser it s the only application running at that time.

Do you have your render running as a separate process in your Poser preferences? If not, enable that. I had more problems before I did that - more with Poser 7 than with 8, but rendering to a separate process seemed to eliminate crashes and freezes for me.

Laurie

I make sure to go into my task manager and close everything that I know is not needed for the time. That way Poser call pull all the memory it can. Also I close my browser, they fight for memory and for some reason the browser always wins. Thats my advice, It helps me. Also like I believe Phil said, save save and save. :o)

Quote - What memory?Ram memory??I have 4 gb

You didn't say what kind of OS you have, but if it is 32-bit you can only address 3 Gb regardless of how much physical memory you have on board.

Basic things take about 0.5 Gb in windows so only 2.5 gb is available to Poser in 32 bit.

If you have 64 bit, there is not such a limitation

A little trick I learned from Bagginsbill, in case this might be ur problem:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/friendly_message.php?save&message_id=3666416

Helped me a lot ;o).

Laurie

Thanks Laurie for posting that. I'm sure that will help me as well. :)

I've used that too.  It works on my XP desktop but not for my Vista laptop.  For large renders I close just about everything.

Quote - I've used that too.  It works on my XP desktop but not for my Vista laptop.  For large renders I close just about everything.

Hmm...it worked for me in Vista. Does in Win7 64 too, although you have to change it up a little bit ;o).

Laurie

hi all,

in case of memory issues on 32-bit Windows, I did an extensive tutorial on it recently. It's in the Tutorials section. 

Why reducing priority (I use Taskmanager for it, great for long renders) or separating processing should help, I don't know but it doesn't hurt either. 

My Poser (8.3 in Vista 32) has the same symptoms, and crashes when switching to another Room. Switching from cloth room to material room is a favorite crasher, switching from cloth room to hair room and then to material room avoids crashes, and so on. Has nothing to do with memory or CPU, has nothing to do with scene complexity, getting the latest video-driver sometimes helps for a while.

Poser is just not 100% stable, so indeed, save frequently and before rendering or switching rooms in any case. Things will improve, given time. And get worse, in between. Software like Poser is more complex than the Space Shuttle, you know. Windows is more complex than Houston Space Control, and Microsoft has more programmers and performs more testing than NASA. So just let's enjoy the miracle of Poser ad OS's working together.

Have fun.

okay,

in another thread I found a link into Smith Micro, on solving Poser weird behavior. One never knows.