I've had a problem for a long time now with Victoria 4. About 80% of the time I save a file using Victoria 4 it seemingly becomes corrupted, with attempts to load it resulting in "Poser.exe has stopped working." I've tried to find out what prevents this from happening with the other 20% but I can't seem to find a common cause.

Aiko 4, on the other hand, never has this problem. I've found a partial solution by using A4 as a V4 substitute. However with this method character morphs refuse to stick most of the time, and I have to reapply them whenever I load a save. Again, there are times where this doesn't happen, but I'll be damned if I can tell why. It's preferable to losing an entire save, but it would be nice not to have to do it every time.

So does anyone have any idea how to stop my V4 saves from corrupting, or failing that, how I can get character morphs to permanently stick to A4?

Thanks in advance.

Victoria 4 and Aiko 4 are the same figure - it's just that Aiko 4 loads with the Aiko morph set and textures applied. So, if they are loading differently that suggests that there's a problem with your set up - possibly duplicate RuntimeLibraries!DAZVictoria 4 folders in different locations, if the Aiko CR2 is in a different place from the V4 CR2, with the order in which they are found affecting the result. Are you using External Binary Morph Targets? That's set in Edit>General Preferences>Miscellaneous tab and has been a problem with V4 in the past - which version of Poser are you using, and do you have all the service packs?

I'm using Poser 7.

External Binary Morph Targets was checked. I've unchecked to see if that helps any.

Aiko 4, Victoria 4 base and Victoria 4.2 cr2s are all in the RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ People folder, pretty sure there's no duplicates.

Not sure what you mean by service packs, but I have Victoria 4.2 Morphs++.

Loading and using the figures is fine, the problems only occur when loading a save file.

Almost sounds like a PMD corruption.  RHaseltine has suggested some potential fixes; I would check how your files are installed.  We either are seeing file conflicts, bad settings, or operating system interference.  

Give us a better idea how files are installed and under which OS you are running Poser.  Also post which Poser version you are running.

Edit: There are several Service Releases for P7 @ SmithMicro you should dl and install.  Those will fix certain issues.

Figures are RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ People, poses are RuntimeLibrariesPoseDAZ's Victoria 4, geometries are RuntimeGeometriesDAZPeople, which others would be of signifance?

I'm using Vista but had the same problems with XP.

Thanks for the advice, installing various service packs as we speak.

I hope the service packs, and turning off External Binary morph Targets, will help - but if not, where is your Runtime folder? I can't recall for sure, but I think Poser 7 still defaulted to placing it in the application folder which is a potential source of trouble in Vista and later - especially with the DAZ fourth generation figures.

You write:
Vista

Your write:
Figures are in "RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ People"

THE important part is what comes before: "RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ People"

Please provide the full path, as Vista restricts where you can put your own stuff. Its called : UAC.

You have to pull your personal runtimes from the Poser Installion and put them where Vista allows you to write.

This is a known Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 issue.