Hey all I am having a problem with all versions of Poser that has just surfaced in the last week or so. When I go to save my work the view screen will turn white and up in the tool bar it will say "Poser not responding". This will stay this way for about 5-10 seconds and then the veiw screen wil return to normal. Poser does not crash to desk top or freeze I can continue to work with the scene.

This happens intermittently it could happen the very first time I save my scene to in not happening for a long time. I tried to get a screen shot but the problem doesn't stay up on the screen long enough to get one.

I haven't installed anything new software wise and the only hardware that has been installed lately is a USB dongle for my wireless internet.

My machine specs:

Windows 7-64

Intel i7

12 gigs ram

poser Pro, Poser 8 and Poser pro 2010.

Not to sound unappreciative but could people please refain from just posting, "Poser works for me I haven't had any problems."? I am so glad poser is working good for you but I am looking for more opinions as to what this problem is and if anyone else has seen this. I have feeling it's another poser thing that happend to one and a million people but I hope not.

Thanks all!!

I think the problem is that poser becomes unresponsive while writeing to disk until it finishes.

How is your free space on your disk and have you defraged. 

Saveing can involve hundreds of meg of disk writes.

Bill

I think willy has the answer.  Disk access can really hold things up.

have had a similar problem, for me rolling back the vid drivers sorted it

Disk space isn't a problem however the video drivers could be. I have had problems with Poser before with video drivers as well as video drivers messing up Vue too. Thanks for your imput folks I think this is going to be a trial and error kind of thing. :)

I had the same issue on my windows 7 64 bit...

Moved alot of my files onto a external usb hard drive. On top of deleting old files, defragmented my disks, closed all unused programs as well....

I still get the occasional poser not responding but it never crashes.

Are you cloaning alot of things in your scene?  That's what I found out my problem was after talking with support. 

I kept cloning fence sections instead of creating new ones, and over loaded the memory and thus causing the not responding.

Try creating new props when you want to load the same one again.

Hope this helps.

Mine never crashes but the not responding thing is annoying. Mostly I use poser for setting up scenes to render in Vue.  I don't clone or reproduce anything in Poser I do that in Vue. The reason I was asking about this not responding issue is because I had a poser scene that came into Vue funny. All the props and such looked like they do when you first bring them into Poser before you place them. I thought that maybe this not responding issue was corrupting the .pz3 files which made them look bad in Vue. I guess I'll just have to see as time goes on if this is the case.

I don't know why after all this time this not responding thing is going on. Never had this issues until this week.

When I said "disk access", I wasn't referring to disk space.  If Poser - or your OS - is performing a lot of read/write stuff, your system and apps will grind to a halt.  

I assume Win7 still uses the HD as paged RAM; if it's anything like XP, the default value is so small as to be useless.  On XP, it's usual to set it to 4GB in order to avoid a great deal of slowdowns.