I'm running the above software on a PIII 875Mhz processor, 512mb RAM and a NVidia GeForce III Ti 200 with 64mb (AGP). Poser seems to run a little strange. Ran nice under WIN98SE with the above hardware. What I'm seeing are a few things. I run 1600x1200 32bit depth for my display to a 19" Smasung monitor. 1) I set my prefered state and the render window doesnt stay where I put it when opening Poser up for the first time. The window is moved down and to the right. 2) When rendering a scene about half way through my system starts going Ding Ding Ding Ding about once a second..very annoying. Anyone else have these issues or know of what I can do to resolve them or what might be causing them? Any and all help is greatly appreciated! :) Clint

This may sound strange, but check you bios and look for the temperature setting of your CPU. If possible, disable the sensor so there are no alarms, then go back and do a big rendor again. When you render, you are using the CPU only, (and memory). It will really pump up the heat. If you hear the beep again, it's not temp. If you don't hear the beep, that was probably it. Don't stop there though, you need to cool down your case. I can help there, if that was it. As for the layout of the screen, I think this is a Poser issue. It does it on mine and has done this since I owned version 3 when it first came out.

Thanks for the reply Wizard... My temp is at 80 Deg or 27c. I've got boat load of fans...well 3 of them and a large CPU heat Synch/Fan. I've got the temp monitoring software set so it will sound at 104 deg. It only goes up to about 84 deg when rendering. Hmm...still puzzled. Clint

How about this. Disable all your sounds in Windows. If this is the standard "Ding" Windows uses (I also have W2K Pro), then after something is accomplished, it notifies you with a ding. Try it and see if that stops the sound. Remember, I'm not talking about all sound across everything, just the native Windows sounds you can change in Control Panel. If that's it, then look for a program in the background that is running and may contribute to this.

some times ago I,ve had this too, but I can,t remember what it was. My system is totally different (AMD900, 512MB with Elsa Gladiac Gforce 2GTS). This could be a problem with the interupt sharing of Win2k or the drivers you use. Try the newest drivers for the graphic and soundcard and run the Win2k SP2!!

Robert

I had all kinds of troubles with Poser 4.03 and the general preferences, on both win2k AND Win98se. For most people the general preference problem lies in the short cut in the curious labs folder needing to be pointed back to the metacreations folder. However i started running into that problem on 4.02, so I was never able to apply that fix. The dinging in the rendering problem is likely a shared resource acting up, something that wasn;t so noticeable on Win98. Examples of this, could be a Via chipset motherboard, and a Creative Labs sound card, which generally have a clash/share the irq for the USB, and can create some grief. Have you downloaded the service packs for Win2k? They may possibly fix your ills. For comparison's sake I am running a dual boot, Win98SE, and Win2k, on a P3 700, with 512MB's of ram, and a nVidia geforce2 MX400 with 64 MB's of ram.

Hmmm..I am running SP2. But, I do have a shit VIA mobo...Never will I get another Mobo with the VIA chipset..I hate it. More than likely thats it. (sigh) Clint

I was having pretty much the sae problem with the windw re-positioning itself on startup with 4.03 after I upgraded to XP - only XP problem I had with it. Went away when I installed ProPak - still not sure what caused it. When rendering, I currently hear oneinstance of the sound assigned to default sound in the sound control panel. I remember in Win95 the default sound repeated several times. I always thought it was from the OS interpreting poser calculating each lightset and/or texture as a separate OS event & announcing it. I never considered it a problem, as I just assigned a quieter sound to that event and kind of missed it when I upgraded OS (thought my renders were locking up on me:-)).

Yet my board, with the via chipset has been good as gold :} However, that doesn;t help us with what is conflicting now on yours and setting off the windows default ding nor shut it down. if you go into the computer management area, is there anything in forced/sharing hardware, or anything in the device manager that would give us somewhere to look? at least somewhere to start, and maybe we can move around the offending item, and get this thing quieted down.

:) Actualu the VIA chipset has been good so far... I think I'll just kill the default sound and be done with it. Other than that the system is rock solid. No Forced/Sharing or conflicts going on. I want to thank all of you for taking the time to reply to my questions. Clint

No problems, and shutting the default sound off is probably the best idea anyway :}

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Clint, P4 1.5gig 1 gig ram same problem with the ringing at times. All I do is click on the task bar and it quits. Go figure. Pinto

smerc...Thanks for the link. Pinto - hehe...gotta love it. :) I'll try that. I usually just turnt he volume down but that kills my music. :( Clint

It may have something to do with you mouse software. What kind of mouse and what driver. The Poser window is always active to mouseover even when rendering. A way to remidy this is to set the system focus elsewhere. (Another window, start menu) The preferred State is just a PZ3 file. Check that the file is not corrupted or write protected. You may even try renameing it and letting pose start in its default state. C:Program FilesMetaCreationsPoser 4RuntimeprefspreferredState.pz3 I had this roaming window problem back on W98 and deleting the PZ3 fixed it. W2K, P4/1.8 Intel 850 (Asus), 512 Rambus, GeForce2 Pro.

Can't help you with the music, Clint, but the movement of the Poser window may have something to do with the way, Poser had been shut down last time around. I am running Poser on similare H/W to yours and also with W2k, and it always happens that the Poser window is all over the place, whenever Poser had crashed or I did shut it down by not using the propoer means (like switching off the computer w/o closing Poser before). It can also happen, if you start Poser by opening a pz3-file directly, w/o going through the import-procedure after starting-up Poser empty. However, another thing is annoying me. Since I started to run Poser on W2k, it takes incredibly long to load (appr. 3 min.) and the import window shows all the choices twice (all double entries in the dropdown window). Now, if I want to import a, say, a .obj-file (or dxf, or whatever choice you have), I must always use the last entry of that choice in the list. Otherways Poser crashes in a way that I will have to do a cold re-start of the whole caboodle. I already tried to cure this problem by re-installing Poser, but it didn't go away. Anybody have an expalnation for this???

dewo Do a file search on files with the plugin extention *.arp in your poser folder structure. If you find any duplicates anywhere but in the runtime/plugins folder, delete or move them off somewhere outside poser's structure. If you don't find duplicates, try dragging the associated .rsr files out of the plugins folder & see if the problem occurs when next you start Poser. I'd expect the problem to be gone as that fixed the problem when I had it last year. Good Luck

Leather-Guy, I owe you one, my friend!! It worked. I got rid of the doubles, and no crashing while importing. The loading time still remains long, however, but for the rest, you did the trick. Thanks a lot, and have a good day. regards D.