I seem to be having a problem rendering a figure to a larger window. It gets about half way through, then goes wonky on me. It renders to the main window with no problem. I've never had this happen before, and other figures are rendering just fine. Any suggestions or help you can give will definitely be appreciated =)

Marybeth

Wow! Sorry but I have never had that happen to me, I'm sure someone will come along that knows what to do :)

I get that problem if I try to scroll while it's rendering but usually the final render looks fine.. Not sure what this is.. Never seen it before. Except like i said when I scroll while it's rendering. Storm

Happened to me a couple of times; What always worked for me, Save & shut down poser, Shut down the computer for a minute, bootup & try again - sometimes the OS & Poser conspire to confuse each other a bit. ;-)

actually looks more like a video driver issue.

That happened to me quite frequently when rendering to a separate window. It was usually followed by a complete lockup of Poser. Rebooting the computer would occasionally allow a complete render, but not always, and the more complex the elements of the scene were the more likely the problem was to occur. I believe the source of the problem is exhaustion (maybe fragmentation) of memory resources. Sounds pompous :) but is easy to fix--I now make sure a program called MemTurbo (www.memturbo.com) is running before I do any rendering. With MemTurbo running, I have no rendering failures (well, artistic ones, but those are MY fault). Turn off MemTurbo, and try to render the same scene with the same settings--guaranteed lockup. Traveler started a thread regarding RAM leak crashes and freezes a week or so ago--do a search on "RAM leak" to read what others have to say. Good luck solving this problem. I know how frustrating it can be.

Hi, The program was called "Mem Max" and it's not bad, but I've never had it the above happen to me. Looks far more like a video/driver fault. Just my $0.02 later jb

Okay, now this is weird. Never seen anything like this. Some of what people have said above sounds very plausible, like a video/driver thing. Dum question. Have you got the latest Poser update installed? I'm sure you do, but I thought I'd ask, just to be sure. Do you use Poser4 or Propack?

JB-- Mem Max started the ball rolling, but as I recall there was discussion about several other programs as well. Multiple solutions to the same problem. My original guess was video drivers as well--except that, for me, the problem spanned multiple computers, and a variety of video cards. As to why it happens to some folks, and not others--I dunno, frankly. Maybe it's a combination of the complexity of the scene (large texture maps, lights, shadows, and the number and nature of figures and props involved), available RAM (installed, and what's left after any background programs are taken into account), and the size and resolution of the "new render" window. If someone IS having this problem, and their video drivers are up to date, a program that automatically recovers RAM when the available amount drops below a certain level might make the difference. Hey, Marybeth, could you try rendering that scene you showed us in your message with all the boxes in "Render Options->Surface Materials" unchecked? Do you still have problems that way? Just curious.

Everyone will get this is they try to scroll up while the Poser is rendering, nuff said.

I had this happen also. I had tried most of the above suggestions, including "mem turbo" and nothing worked. I ended up installing Win2k (I had Win98) on my PC (from sctatch not upgrade and installing poser from scratch. All of my previous PZ3's now rendered perfect, I have not seen this problem again. Win2k (or XP) is the way to go...forget the old Win9x OS's.

Thank you so much for the great suggestion! I downloaded the MemTurbo program and it worked perfectly. I have never seen this happen before but after checking all the materials that were loaded on the figure (tex, bumps and reflections), I could see where it could be straining the somewhat meager resources I have. Guess it's going to be Pro Pack and a new computer for me in the very near future. Thanks to everyone for their input and suggestions. Marybeth

What an adorable elfy pose. Great quick little render there. Cute Cute Cute.

I had the same problem for a while and it wasn't because of resources because I have a PIII 850 and 448 megs RAM. What ultimately fixed it was Windows XP. The problem is that it's some sort of Windows 95/98/MNE memory management issue. I haven't had ANY type of Poser lock up since I switched to XP.