My poser is slowly dying, if no-one can help me pretty soon I doubt I'll be making poser images. The problem started a few months back, when I would put a high light setting on I would get pink dots all over my poser when I rendered. So from then I started doing my lighting in Paintshop Pro/Photo Impact. A few weeks later these pink dots appeared all over my poser when I rendered whatever the circumstances. It then expanded to multicoloured dots all over the poser. Now a month down the line, I get black lines through the poser, black patches over the poser and various other wierd acts going on when I render. At first I thought this was a memory problem. But when I bought more memory it did not solve the problem. I hope someone can solve this wierd act or else mt poser days may be over.... -Perks

Did you try completely removing Poser and then re-installing it? Or if this is happening with any other programs, maybe it's your monitor shrug?

Yes, I have tried reinstalling poser. And no, it cant be my monitor because when I show people they can see all these ugly lines/dots as well. -Perks

Sounds like an issue with your graphic card/driver? Hard to tell from your description, can you post a polka-dotted pic or two? if you save the renders do the dots appear if you view them with other programs, like Irfanview32? If I was experiencing what you described, I'd proceed like this; 1] download & install the latest driver for my video card, ditto for my monitor. 2] if no change, I'd do as MacD suggests, copy any & all custom content (anything under Poser4Runtime, usually, that you've added files to since the original installation) 3] De-install Poser. (NOT Delete) & run Norton System Check or whatever tuneup software you prefer (to cleanup registry entries, & check your hard drive). 4] Re-install poser 5] download & install the latest patch for poser4 from Curious labs (4.03, I think). 6] see if the problem has gone away 7] Restore your custom folders, one-by-one; checking every so often that renders were still OK. I'd be surprised if the problem persists after all that, unless your Video card was going bad (possibly the memory on the card) - Poser supposedly doesn't farm much of the work of a render out to the graphics card, but all apps use it one way or another. Good Luck! Jerry B

Do you mean that when you make a render and post the render you have junk in it?

Just my two cents but it sounds a lot like a video card issue maybe. I have a ParamediaII type 2D/3Dvideo card with only 8mg of video ram on it. It used to give me colour artifacts and drop outs some times. Often green and pink squares apeared in renders. It now sits in the closet gathering dust.

Yeah, thats what I get; green and pink squares. I will try messing about with my graphic card and maybe downloading the latest driver if I can. Before any of you jump to conclusions though I have an NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 graphics card. Its meant to be pretty awesome, but by the sounds of it that may just be my problem. I'll have a mess about in my graphics options and look for a new driver then get back to you all. Thanx for your responses. -Perks

Along NEUROcYBER'Strain of thought, I had a floppy-drive short bunout my old Creative Labs Grahics blaster and replaced it with an ATI Rage 128. Poser got REALLY hinky on me...it would render and display OK, but but when I would save a figure oor prop, there would be a blank space for the thumbnail (not even the "shruggy guy"!!!) I went absolutely crazy with de- & re-installs until I replaced my card with a Hercules (it was dirt cheap!) and viola, everything was fine! So I'd say it's your graphics card too...Get a cheap one (in the $75-100 Range)...and stay away from ATI!

Hmmm. Stay away from ATI, eh? Just goes to show. everyone's experience is different!I've used 3 different computers with ATI cards since I started using Poser with Poser 1 (& I like the All-In-Wonder line). I've never had an ATI-related problem, that I known of. I once had lockups on graphic-intensive activities, but traced that down to a hinky installation of a crappy version of DirectX (version7, I think) - After an incredible amount of trouble I managed to obliterate DirectX 7, & re-installed the last version of DirectX 6. problems gone. If you suspect it might be related, there's a "secret" utility for WIN98 (on the Install disks) that's usually not installed by default. It's called DXDIAG.EXE - does a pretty thorough job of testing any version it understands. If you can't find it with a File-Find on the WIN98 distrib disk, or in the windowssystem folder, you can probably get it off microsoft's tech support sites.

Thanks, but the Hercules works just fine and has better Rsolutions available...(I like working in 1280x1024) Have you solved your own problem yet?

I'm running the same kind of card on my station Perks and I've yet to experience any problems with it. It may not be the latest and greatest, but it is a good card. That's not to say that it won't take a dive sooner or later, but then you'd be experiencing gliches in most of your applications that use the card and not just confined to Poser. Check your color settings to see if it's high enough (I run true color).

Nope, I have tried running in 32bit True Colour, reinstalling poser, downloading the latest driver for my graphics card and still the problem persists. I am having to spend like an hour on post work for each graphic I make just gettings rid of pink and green dots. ITS ANNOYING! -Perks .....I am in serious need of help

Sorry to say this, but the problem may be a hardware problem on your monitor (flatscreens are especially prone to artifacts when they fall ill). If possible, try connecting another monitor and rendering on that.

What S.O. are you using? What version of DirectX have you installed? Do you know some graphic cards have an option to use 24 or 32 bits for million colors? Definitely is a graphic card issue, even if Poser doesn't use the card itself in no way (it uses system resource). I'm running Win2k with Poser 4.0.3, an ATI Rage IIc with 8 meg of RAM and latest drivers, DirectX 8 for Win2k (there are two versions, one for 2k and the other for 95/98/Me), and I NEVER had a problem in rendering. Try change the graphic card with another one (I suggest the Matrox G series, not a great one for 3D games but cheap and very useful and powerful for programs like Poser which doesn't use graphic hardware for 3D); if it doesn't work, you can try moving your card to another computer and test it. Another issue: is your system memory bad? As Poser uses system resource, even the system memory can be the bad thing...

Ech...sorry, you ALREADY know there's the 24 or 32 bit options... :-///

Can you render an image then hit print screen and then open paint then hit paste and save as jpg and post it here so we can see your poser interface and your render at the same time with all the pink dots and stuff? rodpanther

Check the bus speed of your motherboard - sounds like an overclocked AGB slot to me. Just a guess of course. I need more of your computers specs too give you more hints.