I just got poser 4 and whenever i try to change the character which i have to model, the little screen in the middle which normally contains whatever your editing just goes blank. I also cant apply poses to characters or anything. it is totally not working please help!!!

What version of Poser are you using and what are the specs of your machine? (RAM, CPU speed, etc.)

Wow Britney Spears uses Poser!!!

you might try deleting the first figure before adding another. one other thing it might be is that you are trying to add a figure, but poser thinks you are trying to replace one. instead of double clicking the new character as you would expect, single click it, and go to the bottom where you see a double check mark, and click that. then you can have two figures in the document window simultaneously. old hats at poser tend to forget that simple stuff like that frustrated us once upon a time....

im obviousely not britney spears and anywayz im using version 4 and i have a p 3 566 mhz windowz xp, and 182 ram or sumthing also when i try to install the update it says: "Could not find a valid Poser 4.0 installation. Can not continue to perform update. Click on OK to exit updater." pleaze help again :)

Yeah... Britney Spears has a degree in Semiconductor Thermodynamics. Probably just a notch or so above the intelligence level that the average Poser newbie needs to have.

Don't let yer meat-loaf...

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I would suggest you reinstall Poser and then the 4.03 update. Sounds like you are either missing a core file or one is corrupted. Also ensure that the patch is looking for Poser on the correct drive if not installed on the default C: Let us know how you get on. We can help you through this.

Surely a Poser newbie will already have 4.03 on the CD? Mine says 4.0.3.127 as installed, and I've had it for over a year.

Hi, Could be registry corruption, since most updates simply look in the regisrty to find out where it was installed, unlike DAZ stuff, which actually searches your PC to find a valid poser4/runtime folder. In which case, de-install then re-install, if you don't properly de-install, then it may leave screwed up registry entries, which will persist into an new install. I had the same problem with "the sims" and XP, it had two lots of registry entries, and I only manually cleaned out one set... later jb

Ron I wasn't suggesting not asking about the update, but rather that we should also make sure they do actually need it (no idea how big a file it is to download but probably enough to annoy moem users, and people may get even more confused if they try installing without realising they already have it)