Y-Phil posted at 4:39 AM Wed, 5 April 2023 - #4460834

And for those that aren't at ease with INI files editing, the TEMP_PATH is here: 

Thank you for adding that.

To be honest I had a nightmare of a day yesterday when a started this thread, my broadband provider was having a bad time too as my Internet connection was up and down like a fiddler's elbow.  Now I know for some people reading this that could be the norm so I know how lucky I am but they are normally good as a provider and I pay a lot each month for a fast connection.  This on top of the F-Secure  nonsense managed to push my buttons something that is hard to do with me usually.  When I am having bad days like this I tend to turn to Poser as an escape from the real world so when that started throwing a wobbly, my mood dipped even further.  Having had to reinstall Poser 13 due to F-Secure ( I restarted my machine and F-Secure deleted the quarantined the file in question) I tried to set up the Poser UI by moving many of the windows onto my second screen.  Try being the operative word, as many refused to go across and docked when told not to, after a frustrating 40 minutes I gave up and generated this thread.  Only then did I discover the the problem with moving windows existed outside of Poser and my rather expensive gaming mouse had decided to stop tracking smoothly, assuming it tracked at all, some minutes earlier.

So summary, mouse has been changed (it could well have added to the walkabout problem in Poser) and the UI is set and recoverable using the UI buttons.  The F-Secure problem still exists but is easy to solve as long as I tell F-Secure to put the file it had quarantined back before I do a restart.  Poser log suggested I should increase my Texture Caching so I have done that and the situation is much improved.  It still goes off doing it's own thing but not for as long and it does seem to hog memory, starting from an empty scene and adding a single Dawn SE figure with an outfit of a suit, gloves and boots and a single light wipes 49% of available memory when I started with 64gig, some of which is of course reserved.  

I will plod on but I have to say I find myself comparing Poser 13 to 12 and the comparison is not good.  Probably and unfair comparison as you would expect some issues with a new release and the gains in the rendering with 13 is exceptional.  

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.