'The application Poser 4.0 could not be opened because "MSL Runtime PPC++.DLL" could not be found'. What is this, and why does it keep vanishing? I am sick of reinstalling Poser! And why on God's green Earth does Poser open a version of the Runtime folder yes, complete with props and such that were deleted long. long ago when I open on older document? Not just props for the document, but whole directories full of stuff. Why?

Not sure about the dialog you list, but have you updated your Poser 4.0 with Poser 4.03 patch available at Curious Labs? Just an idea until someone with more expertise answers your question.

Yes, and yes. All defrag, Poser 4.0.3; I'm having a terrible time. I asked the computer to render a texture map that it couldn't handle, it crashed and Poser would not reload, I reinstalled, did one piece and tried to render no. Now Poser won't load at all. I reinstall, it will load but none of my Millennium figures; I install the 4.0.3 patch and it complains about the 'MSL Runtime PPC++.DLL' file,, and will not start. Arrgh.

Run your virus checker?

I don't know if this will help, but when my hdd gets close to 75% full everything gets wierd...when I clean it up to around 50% full...happiness again

Are you uninstalling the Program or just reinstalling over the same files? Windows, will sometimes not accept/like a program being installed twice, unless of course your program has that feature to correct/add/modify on the disk........but I don't believe Poser has that. Just a thought. (: Genny

This is not a virus, nor a need to update. The truth is that Poser does consume itself on occasion. When Poser's runtime opperations are interupted, key files can get garbled. When you push the limits things may break. It's a problem with the basic coding and how it loads/reads/writes to file. What has happened here is that something, more than likely POSER, has corrupted a Windows Library file. You're gonna have to bite the bullet and reinstall. And next time don't get out of the car untill the ride comes to a complete stop.

Thanks, Impudicus but I'm on a Mac, and Macs don't tend to do that the way Windows machines do. The poor thing is already strained so I try to keep file sizes small... restart if I've done so much as read a text file to free up sysem memory before starting Poser... keep at least 1 GB free on the hard disk at all times (tough; I've only got 4)... I've got a nice, clean Poser directory with just about nothing in it that isn't factory, and all of a sudden it's complaining about this stupid file and crashing after every third save. I'm working with a plain Mike file, three props, only a head texture map, no bumps. One light. I've reinstalled three times tonight, trashing the old folder each time. This is driving me nuts.

Check and see if that file is a Poser file, look in the Runtime folder. Just because it says "Runtime" it doesnt mean it is a Poser specific .DLL, and may be a MAC standard file instead thats corrupted.

I have a mac as well. By any chance did you recently upgrade your OS? I recently upgraded to 9.2.2 and have had problems ever since. Ireally do not recommend the upgrade. Also the 1 gig is small potatoes to Poser but it should only have memory issues then not the problems you are having. You may have to check with the techies at Curious Labs.

Sometimes reinstalling over a corrupted installation leaves the corruption in place. Uninstalling Poser might be able to delete the unwanted program files. Uninstalling leaves the files not originally in Poser alone .... the stuff you added later.

Thanks everyone I think I have it working again. You're right, Ron, it's not enough free space but I just don't have any more! :P Someday, someday... March, hopefully. I searched the hard disk with Sherlock 2 for the file and the external, before and after the reinstall nothing. Very weird. No, I haven't updated the system, Barbarellany I'm still running 9.0.4, incidentally and haven't installed any new software at all. I trashed the old Poser again, trashed the Preferences, emptied the trash, and renamed all Poser related backups on the other hard drive so as to avoid confusion; moved the updater from the external to the main hard drive and reinstalled again from the CD, updated immediately. It loaded. I installed Michael. It loaded again! I installed the Mike 2 upgrade. Still it loaded! I may get really brave and install his clothing pack now. :) I have no idea why it's working again, I basically just repeated the same steps three times... I must have overlooked something and finally got it right. I'm just pleased it's working again. I was right in the middle of something. Thanks for all your help! I certinly appreciate having folks around to turn to when things act up and start driving me batty! Allright, I'll stop ranting now and go get some more coffee... thanks again.