Help! I have the curious labs version 4.03 CD and I have even tried using the 4.03 updater but i get an out of memory error part way through building a scene and elements disappear from it. It has been working fine on my system for months and all I did was reinstall everything to get rid of some garbage programs i never use anymore. Any ideas on what could be wrong? system: AMD 1700xp, 1.5gb ram, Windows XP, geforce 4 4600

update the memory allocated to the program. I use mac but windows must have a similar thing, File>get info>memory

Hi Isn't the out of memory error the general purpose error if something is not installed right? Windows allocates memory without user help, that is in my book where my wifes mac falls down, having to install things by hand we have a lot of arguments over which system is best! Dave

Barbarellany, Windows doesn't do memory like Macs do. They can't allocate memory. Actually, as of OS X we don't allocate memory anymore either.

what you can do on XP tho is to raise poser's priority with taskmanager once you have poser running and before you do anything with it, get task manager running and go to the processes tab, find the poser process and right click on it, at the bottom of the list you see set priority change the priority to above normal, don't go any higher than that or XP will start getting cranky. Rob

should have said doing that gives poser more of the processor attention, it's best not to have anything else running in the background when you do this. Rob

One more thing to think about: I just put in a new hard-drive and reinstalled loads of files from back-up CD's. Unfortunately, these files are now classified as "read only", and for some strange reason, Poser stumbles over quite a few of them. Not ALL of them, mind, but a majority. I don't understand why, but once I remove the "read only" tag, the files work fine. P.S. - If you create back-up CD's, for heaven's sake, check that the items WORK on the CD. I lost an estimated 30% of my archives because the data was corrupted. Stupid me only looked to see the file was on the CD with the correct extension and placement, not that it actually worked. (major sigh) oh well.... back to the sketch pad!

Thanks for all the ideas folks i really appreciate the feedback. Turns out after trying to duplicate it on my secondary system I found that when i had reinstalled XP on my main system I ran all the updates for it before i installed any other software. I hadn't updated in a month or so and after 3 reinstalls i decided to check my second system and found there were serveral updates available on windows update for it also. Once they were installed the same thing happened on that system also. So i reinstalled XP once again and did no updates and it is working perfectly now, so one of the updates to XP that came out in the last month or so was the problem.

strange I have all the updates for xp, what I did tho was reinstall xp and update then install poser 4.03 and it worked ok. It could be the order you update in that's the problem. Rob