I use poser only occasionally, long enough to forget about the issues between times.

So today I started to try to work on poser8 again, and was greeted with the regular random lockups and crashes as before.  I looked around for the solution and found several, everything from updating drivers to not opening web browsers, and a few solutions that seemed to require the sacrifice of small animals and rituals.

Since it has been out for awhile, has this issue ever been fully resolved?

Is poser pro2010 more stable? 

thanks all

There's no inherent crashing problem with Poser 8. It's proved to be considerably less crash / freeze prone than, for example, Adobe Photoshop on my system.

PoserPro 2012 is neither more nor less stable than P8 (it's pretty much rock-solid save for the very occasional crash).

As ever, the advice is to make sure you have the latest service pack, latest graphic card drivers etc., make sure that 'external binary morphs' are disabled in preferences.

You've given no info about your system so further advice would be based on guesswork.

Sorry to ask but I've been 100% on this so far with quite a few people -

Have you installed the updates? The current software is SR 3.

If you have not, start there.

PP 2010 is extremely stable - I do not run P8 any longer so cannot say how it is.

Ah, specs...

Poser 8.03.11793

win7 64 bit

duo i7 CPU 2.67

12 gb ram

Everything is up to date, drivers wise.   I just get frustrated with it, the current solution today is to not run firefox or chrome.

My Poser8 copy crashed at the beginning. I can't remeber what update solved the problem but AFAIR it's the most stable version I've used (and I'm an user from Poser4 to today)

Check if you have installed the most recent update

xil, your system is similar to mine. I've never understood how or why running Chrome or FireFox would interfere with Poser - I run both and neither has ever impacted on it.

Where is Poser installed? If it's in C:Program Files, that might be an issue. I have it, and most other software, installed onto a completely different drive. UAC may also cause problems, the solution is either to turn it off - if you're feeling brave - or search this forum for how to make Poser launch with full admin priviledges,

For many people Adobe's Flashplayer was the problem and specifically if there were conflicting installations of it.   Uninstall and then go to Adobe's site to install the latest Flashplayer and see if it solves your problem.    That was what was causing my crashes.

I have not P8 but I had problems with P6 and P7 when I instaled divx codec. Do not remember which codec I had, but try uninstal it.

Quote - For many people Adobe's Flashplayer was the problem and specifically if there were conflicting installations of it.   Uninstall and then go to Adobe's site to install the latest Flashplayer and see if it solves your problem.    That was what was causing my crashes.

This, exactly. :)

What firewall are you using? For the life of me I could not get Poser 8 to play well with ZoneAlarm, no matter how much I tweaked the settings. I switched to Eset Internet Security and that solved the problem.

I thank everyone for all the help... the only thing not tried is installing it to another drive, that is just tedious and will have to wait until I Have the free time.

I guess my main point is, I have other 3D software installed, I have MANY other applications installed, and none of them.... not one other... required me to play with my firewall (now poser8 runs as admin and has a hole for the application), or flash player (I extensively use adobe products, they update constantly).  Or I cannot have a web browser use poser.  It should just work...

I am considering upgrading to poserpro 2012 for the file conversion to other formats, I hope this issue is fixed.

I use Pro 2010, and the only time I have any problem with crashing is during extended sessions with the morphing tool. Even then it only seems to happen if I use the "undo" function.

i7 2600, 8 gig, 1.5 gig nvidia 440gt, Poser installed at c:Pro2010

G Chrome can apparently crash Poser 8 according to some reports it definately for some reason crashes Poser 2010

My P8 and PoserPro 2010 crashed until I installed an actual version of the Internet Explorer (that I hardly ever use so I wasn't in need of any newer version until then). I run a mirror of my Poser on a server that crashed even after updating each and everything and I found that the Tune Up Utilities and Poser did not like each other. After I deinstalled the Tune Up Utilities the problem was solved.

The only problem I have with Chrome when running Poser 2010 is that the program will appear to freeze, usually during a render.  Shuting Chrome down unlocks 2010 with no loss of any data.  Annoying - slightly - showstopper - no at all.

What I dont get is... why are chrome and Poser affecting each other at all?