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Subject: Poser disk access very slow with XP-anyone else?

jehllm opened this issue on Jan 17, 2002 · 11 posts
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jehllm ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 3:01 PM · edited Sat, 11 January 2025 at 3:56 PM

Poser has been running extremely slowly with disk access, and am not sure if XP or it is looking for files on disk assignments that changed. A clean installation of Poser still runs slowly-an appreciable wait before a menu, such as 'people' in characters, will open. anyone else run into this?

JeffH ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 3:16 PM

It must be a memory problem. How much ram do you have? XP is very fast with poser for me. -Jeff

SAMS3D ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 4:12 PM

That does happen happen to me also, I have 512 ram, pentium 4, plenty of power. Mostly the newer versions with poser, like Vicky and Mike. Sharen

Crescent ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 4:43 PM

Do you have any fancy menu transitions checked for XP itself? That could cause menu weirdness for Poser. I'll be upgrading to XP this weekend, so I'll see if I have this issue as well. Also, are you using XP Home or XP Professional? I haven't heard happy things about XP Home.

ronknights ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 5:10 PM

I've been using Windows XP Home Edition for months now, with little trouble. Things were a bit out of whack when I had a massive Poser installation on my C drive along with everything else. I had some hard drive problems and used that as an excuse to do a totally new install of Poser on the D drive. Poser is the only program on a 30GB hard drive. I store my art there too, but that's it. My new Poser installation is lean and mean. I only installed my Michael & Vicky stuff, and whatever stuff I want to use soon. You want to have plenty of room on your hard drive. Poser does seem to bog down if you have everything but the kitchen sink installed. I had that problem with Windows ME too.

pokeydots ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 5:41 PM

I'm running windows XP home edition, and have had no problems, and I have everything including the kitchen sink installed into poser! lol I do have a 1 gig hard drive though.

Poser 9 SR3  and 8 sr3
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Processor Type:  AMD Phenom II 830 Quad-Core
2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size:  1TB
Processor - Clock Speed:  2.8 GHz
Operating System:  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 
Graphics Type:  ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics 
System Ram:  8GB 

thorntoa ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 6:20 PM

My Poser directories under XP are huge -- but XP Pro is running very nicely. -512 MB Ram -Dual Processor AMD 1700 XPs -WD 100 GB Hard Drive -Elsa Synergy 2000 Vid Card

Allan Thornton

SAMS3D ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 6:55 PM

Yep, like all said above, you will have all use of your software and it will work right. Have fun...Sharen

JeffH ( ) posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 8:47 PM

I've heard it said the the XP OS needs 256MBs of Ram just for itself, so 512 should be standard.

graphicnovel ( ) posted Fri, 18 January 2002 at 2:33 AM

I also have everything installed, including the kitchen sink on winxp on a p1.5 and poser runs allright, sometimes it kind of take a few secs but that's when I've got some other app runing.... so....

b16a1 ( ) posted Fri, 18 January 2002 at 9:22 AM

mmm... XP Pro on a P4 1.7gHz with 256MB RAM... also all but the sink (maybe the bed is still in my room, but can't check right now to be sure ;)) damned thing is slow too.... but hey... i'm too new to this to dump the xs baggage, so maybe i'll have to live with it (xtra 256megs coming soon, redundancy on the old p3 with 768 right now LOL)

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