hi - trying here to see if audience can help seem plagued by opening errors on .pz3 files have poser 4 + all updates. installed on i:drive rig is athlon 900, 256mb, Creative TNT2 Ultra, Hauppage TV card, HP-CDRW, ZIP drive, etc. display set 1024x768 @ 16bit colour loading saved .pz3 files gets this error. loading others .pz3 files gets it too. firing up poser from within explorer via a .pz3 file also gets this. some things do appear ok but do seem to start up in relatively small environment windows even if it has run for a while will still crash at minor provocations and the 'grey' windows box comes up with a kernell32 error tried cutting all background progs to systray and explorer, (after getting rid of all startup and other backkground stuff via msconfig have tried all ranges of hardware accelaration on the card from full to none tried resolution changes at 800x600 (there got message that couldn't write to size requested and would try next best thing and still crashed) downloaded creatives latest drivers but windows message says that the current version is more appropriate - or some such words - and i've not been brave enough to try to change yet anyone have any idea what this message means and what on earth i can do to get this thing to run without crashing? alan

Did it work and now it's broken? Or did it never work? If it used to work, what changed?

What windows version are running in ??? ... I'm working with win98SE patched with Upack1.2, and the only errors I got come from the memory management (as usual :o)). So, when I want to make some very big scene, I have to end every background application and change my memory parameters : machine profile = server, virtual memory = 3 x physical RAM (and not 2x as usually said). And then working properly ... I recommend especially to end all backgroung apps, such as network apps (ICQ, Firewall, Connection, etc.). To do this, you can download a very useful tool : Enditall. I hope this helps ... regards. PhEnIcE (OJM).