I checked and it seems as though it might be only poser things that do it. I imported something made in shade and it was fine. I also check the demon head that comes with zbrush. That was fine and so was the morph of L'homme i was working on and had exported from zbrush. V4 crashed blender entirely.

As far as the direction of the normals, I used the normal display line things.

recalculating the normals changed nothing.

My video card is 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce 210. There hasn't been a new driver in years so they are as up to date as they can be.

The phantom black thing can't be selected. It only shows at certain angles and totally disappears and doesn't come back when I add the faces.

And no. I never had this with other versions of blender

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