I've installed Poser 4 on a Dell 1.8 gHz Win2k machine with a 64 meg Nvidia GeForce 2 MX, and can't see characters or render images. Poser will launch, but upon launch no character is visible in the document window. I can run the cursor over the doc window and see outlines of the character's parts. If I try to render anything, Poser locks up. All other installed software is running fine. Has anyone else run into this problem? If you have or have a possible solution, please email me at preston@stsci.edu.

Did you re-install Poser after going to Win2k? And have you installed the 4.03 patch for Poser?

Win2k was the resident OS when I got the machine, which was Friday. And the version of Poser on the cd is 4.0.3, though I've also tried running the updater, to no avail.

Have you tried re-installing Poser? - I'm just giving you the standard responses here :)

Xena, I appreciate your responsiveness. I've installed, uninstalled, re-installed, ad nauseum. I even updated the GeForce's driver.

Well, I'm out of answers (didn't have that many to begin with LOL) Good luck with finding an answer. You'll more than likely get it. We have some great people around here :)

Thanks for the help. Your artwork is very nice, by the way. You have a great eye for lighting. I'm sure someone will come along with a fix for my problem.

Ouch - the problem may be in the fact that you're using the "latest" nvidia drivers. I know it sounds silly, but oftentimes Nvidia's patches break more than they fix, unless you just use the box to run Quake 3 Arena :)

Perhaps going back a little to a previous version of nvidia's Detonator driver series would help out.

Also, do you have Service Pack 2 installed for Windows 2k?

/P

I updated the Nvidia driver after running into the problem so that may not be it. As for SP 2, I honestly don't know. Our network folks installed Win2k...but I'll check and see. Thanks for the tip.

SP2 is installed, as is DirectX 8.1.

Ok,: 1) try running windows in safe mode, if 2k allows that. see if it is graphics drivers or not. VGA mode must be an option in 2k 2) If 1) shows it works in VGA mode, consider swapping the graphics card, initially as a test. If that works, consider making it permanent. I don't think you need a super card for rendering. Its CPU driven mainly.

Here's the weirdest thing about all of it...I got the box on Friday, installed Poser and it worked. I was having other problems, so our network admins took it for a couple of days and rebuilt it, re-installing Win2k and other stuff related to functioning here at work (yes, I actually use Poser at work). Once I got it back, the previous problems were fixed but Poser now won't work. Ye gods. I guess I'm going to have to ping our network people again. I was hoping to avoid that.

Stupid idea but what the heck....you say you can see the name of the invisible model...try double clicking on it or go to the properties I think under object and see if visible is turned off. Just a thought. Also try clicking on the invisible model and hit your delete key. Marque

It turned out to be Windows' virtual memory--it was set too high. Poser doesn't like anything above 2 gigs, and it was set to 4 gigs. I set it to 2 gigs, and the characters showed up. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Yay! Thanks, everyone! I just had the same problem- no charachter, white screen, freezing on renders. So I turned the VM down. (Bloody poorly engineered piece of digital don'tgetmestarted....) At that point, I thought, okay, I have two choices. One, burn my computer, move to Nepal, sit on a mountain and eat Yak. Two, search the Poser forum to see if anyone else had the same problem. And here it is! I thank you. Tibet thanks you. The Yaks really thank you! ;]