Poser 8 is always going unresponsive on me. noticed my virus checker is always checking it. this slows it way down, and makes it not even work half the time. i have to wait.

Is P8 always online or is it just my virus checker continually checking it for some reason?

if it is online, how do I turn it off?

No, it's not constantly online. It does use internal connections. I'll let bagginsbill explain it better since he completely understands it ;o). I only know for sure that Poser 8 is not constantly online.

Laurie

use the options on your virus checker to ignore it and allow it.

you may also have to tell your firewall about the poser executable.

It needs access to the loopback address at 127.0.0.1, port 11530

In my case, if the ADSL connection is off, it tries to connect to the internet; I just dismiss the connection dialog and everything works.

I think that nowadays almost no program does not try to "phone home" for purposes that range from license check to usage statistics reporting. The amusing thing is that even if you instruct the things to keep mum, they often still try to connect anyway (e.g. SketchUp, even with net connection option unchecked tries to phone home). Welcome in 1984.

Bye.

Quote - Poser 8 is always going unresponsive on me.

If this happening is while you're rendering, it isn't entirely bad - you want your render to finish ASAP, so using 100% of free CPU is good, but on the other hand it makes just moving the mouse and stuff really uncomfortable.  PPro2010 does this by default as well.  What I do is make a modified shortcut to start Poser at a lower priority:

• Right click the icon you use to start Poser

• Change the Target line to:

     C:WINDOWSsystem32cmd.exe /c start "runbelownormal" /belownormal "C:Program Files (x86)Smith MicroPoser 8Poser.exe"

(or wherever you have Poser.exe installed)

• Hit OK

Poser will run exactly the same when you're not doing anything, but if you move the mouse or open another app, it will be given lower priority when requesting CPU time - this happens thousands of times per second for all apps.  I find it really unpleasant to try to use my PC at the same time a render is going unless I run Poser this way.

Also make sure you are rendering to a separate process. The option for that is located in your General Preferences.

Laurie

it is slow and unresponsive even while trying to move windows, pose, etc etc. Today i noticed the virus scanner ball was twirling away...that's why I asked if it was going to the net a lot or something.

I don;t do much else when its rendering, as I have an antique system which can only do one thing at a time pretty much.

what AV ?

are you sure it's not a scheduled scan?

no, not scheduled for sure  ... I'm using AVAST the free version.

When you said spinning ball, I figured it might be Avast :-) You should be able to go into Real-Time Shields -> Flie System Shield -> Expert Settings and under Exclusions, add your Poser folder. Looks like *.exe might do the trick where is the path to your Poser exe.

I'm not sure if the Web Shield is looking at internal traffic, and if it is, if you can add an exclusion for the loopback address using e.g. http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1:11530.

thanks..i will give that a try.