Trying to render BLBarret's LifeForm 387, using Caleb's free texture with bump. I'd rendered it 4 times at a much higher size 2000+ pixels when I changed lights and all of a sudden I didnt have enough room/size/space to render. OS XP, Pentium4 1.7Ghz 512RAM [which is maxxed] 7 Gigs free space. I took the scenery away-- every darn bit of it, I reduced the level of visual display to wireframe just in case that took anything from the process. I dropped the size to 1200 square. No dice, no room to render. The pz3 file is 867kb!! There were a lot of lights in that last Evo light, but there were more in the proLuma light set I started with and rendered with. I saved, closed the prog and started up again. I didn't reboot. Please somebody tell me Poser got a headache and it'll be over in the morning. Please. Emily I'm probably going to bed now, since I can't finish my render tonight anyway. So if I don't immediately respond, I'm not rude,just sleeping. Emily [it's an incredible model, I CAN'T not use it]

Emily you have my sympathy, I have a 3yo HP pavilion on Win98 that really struggles with Poser despite upgrading to 146meg ram and a 20 gig HD. Most times I have to save a drawing then reboot the PC before rendering or risk a freeze from Poser due to exhausting the ram. Tonight I picked up a tip from the Daz faq tech board, downloaded and installed Cacheman memory manager from ZDnet. Let the wizards optimise the settings, so far so good! ,Poser is working faster, done several multi figure renders and no freezes, even web pages are much faster opening despite 2 programs and a download all happening right now (really pushing my luck!) Next test is windows media player which often crashes my system. This info may not help you on XP but other users with underpowered systems like mine have nothing to lose by trying Cacheman.
Tommy.

I don't understand Emily... are you sure you are not running other programs with POSER ?

I have no problem using this model (with Caleb's texture and bump) on my "average" PC (1GHZ PIII 512mb RAM), so there shouldn't be any problem on your powerful machine !

:) Eric

Oh, I ran 6 or 7 renders at much higher size until Poser just went-- no more, little lady. It might have got upset at the lightset-- that darn "this is a newer setting than we are used to" can make it wobbly. I'm going to try to render today after giving it an evening to calm down. I think I should have rebooted. And I'm very glad to know it isn't the figure. It's a little tough to figure out how to pose him, but for a scary guy, he's one of the most graceful figures I've ever seen. And I got some Vicki poses to work on him-- sorta. Emily

Yeah, it's a incredible creature ! But don't you think that the head could be better ? I'll try to model something in C4DXL, a "predator" or "alien" head would be nice...
if I reach a satisfactory result it'll be in free stuff !

:) Eric

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=195884&Start=1&Artist=ElectricAardvark&ByArtist=Yes

queri, make sure you don't have any temp files in your directory. I have close to the same system as you, and I can render 2 Lifeform387's plus HRez Textures, full screen queing, and fully shaded preview window. Through in AwfulSouls prison wall, my weapon props, and some scene props...no prolbem. If it's still buggie give me the exact settings and I'll recreate it and see what happens. Audity, I have a varient morph of the Lifeform387 in the marketplace. Comes with textures and props too. The link above is a render of him from my gallery. ~EA