Hi, Im a newbie. I love Poser, but there is nothing or frustrating in the world then my couple problems here. First Problem, I just recently got Vicki and some clothing and hair props for her. Every time I open her or the props up it says (This file has a newer version then expected) I added the pic. I have Poser 4. With the exception of the ProPack, dont I have the most recent version? My second Problem, When i actually do open her up and she's on the screen Ill try to add a shirt or something. When I add something Vicki dissapears and the object stays. Where does she go? Ive added a pic for that also. My third problem is after ive added Vicki, a shirt and maybe a prop, It says im out of memory. Ive added this pic also. I hyave a P4 1.7 Meg with 256 of rdram and poser is the only program running. I appreciate any help I can get. thanks in advance.

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First of all, go to curious labs (www.curiouslabs.com) and get the update to poser 4.03. Secondly, when you add a clothes, make sure you are clicking on the DOUBLE checkmark button, not the single. Double ADDS to the scene, single CHANGES the currently selected figure.

Take a look at the FAQ section at the top of this forum. It might help you get over some of the most common pitfalls. ScottA

Kieraw and ScottA type truly! I don't know how you do this on a PC, but if you have the memory to spare, it is worthwhile allocating Poser substantially more than the default if you're working with the Millennium figures. Maybe a friendly PC user can illustrate; I'm afraid I'm a Mac freak. I find that Poser can barely handle Mike or Vicky let alone clotheswithout at least 100000k. The 'file has a new version number than expected' has to do with Pro Pack, I believe: the thing you loaded was likely created with the aid of Poser Pro Pack. I don't have PPP but have yet to encounter the thing that Poser couldn't load anyway.

Strangechilde, you cannot allocate memory in Windows. You can set program priorities in NT based kernels, but that's about it. You can however "Adjust For Best Preformance" (gets gid of all the unnessacary animations in XP) if you "right-click" on "My Computer" desktop icon, select "Properties" and then go to the "Advanced" tab.

I dont think its a memory problem anyway. I can install 2 Victorias, plus two hairs, plus clothing for each into 128 meg RAM. Im a PC user, not a MAC but I have had this "out of Memory" message before and the cause was the .obj file for the item was in the wrong geometries folder. Its worth checking at least.

It sounds like you've already covered most of the potential problems and answers. The only one I can add is that the Out Of Memory error is Poser's multi-purpose error message. Imagine some little kid who doesn't want to do any research so he/she can give you intelligent feedback. Any time something goes wrong, the kids says "Out of memory, out of memory." Hopefully this weird error message will be fixed in Poser 5. One other thing that might cause the Out of Memory error would be a corrupted rsr file in geometries. Ron