hi all,

Win7 sure is an improvement over Vista, which in itself was a serious step again over XP in various areas, which again was a step over NT and Win2000. But Poser has its instabilities as well, and Windows Upgrade on the background is not its best friend, even if its not rebooting. So take Fixers advice indeed to keep the initiative.

Posers Achilles Heel definitely is in the video section, for years, for all OS's. OpenGL can run in hardware or software (the first is better, poser shows an unreadable green note in the Render Settings - Preview tab when its ok to do), if OpenGL falls apart SReed is an old alternative. All for Preview, rendering does not need a videocard at all. So having latest versions of Poser and the Videodriver help.

A special issue can arise when using cheaper or energysaving videocards, the latter as in laptops. This gear eats out of the system RAM-pool and reduces RAM available for user programs. Since Win will use 1 to 1,5Gb for system use (and more of the latter in the mentioned video-case), your 2Gb laptop will squeeze on system as well as user RAM. In that case, upgrading to 3 or 4Gb and NOT setting the 3Gb switch can be of help too. When facing problems, watch the taskmanagers monitoring results on total and user memory (performance and process tabs)

All this might happen in Win7 too, although it might have an improved memory management over Vista.

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