It seems every time my Poser4 can't find a texture the program freezes up, with no other option but to control alt delete. I have win98 156meg ram and 20gig HD with 900meg free. Is there an easy fix? Tommy.

Buy more RAML.. mine has 256 on win ME and it still strugglez with poserL

20 gigs with 900 megs free?? Free up at around 10 gigs (I'm not kidding) and try to upgrade your RAM to at least 256. I refuse to upgrade from 98 to Win2k for personal reasons (huge ram leak problem with Win 98 and Me) so, I am also using Cacheman in the backround to help with RAM allocation.

Oh and another thing...after freeing up that much space at one go, I highly suggest you defrag the drive and re-install Poser + updates. Hope that helps!

Hmmm... Yep, you could do with more RAM, but don't forget that 256MB is the limit for Win98. I think that the biggest obstacle you have is the virtual RAM. If you can't free up a load of space, then you need another drive. Many users swear by having a seperate 30-40GB drive just for Poser and swap-file. H:)

freeze up when poser couldn't find texture or *.obj, tt's old bug come with poser4. re save yr poser file with correct tex path,tt's only way to slove. (but 20gig & only 900mb free space, u sd ask "why not?" couldn't imagine yr computer can run any 3d or graphic edit prog. basicly windows needs to hv not less than 15% free space of ttl hd for swap & temp files.even u didn't hv any memory eater prog installed.)

Get more memory. get a 40 gb hdd. and go to an os where you can control the swap file cashman goes only so far and some figure combs will not work togeter in 98.

Poser is NOT frozen...it just takes forever. Once I realized that I haven't had to force quit poser at all. If you cancel out of a texture load it can take up to 2 minutes (on my old PII 450) and about 25 seconds on my P4 2gz. So just wait, Poser eventually will come back.

Mine never comes back... XP with 256 megs and about 20 gigs free HD... It just freezes. Even ctrl-alt-del takes a few clicks to get a reaction then. very annoying, and I am starting to hate PP. Never had that problem before I installed PP.

I think, of all my high(er) end apps, poser is the absolute worst about hogging resources. I've got 512 MB RAM and poser is on an 80 gig drive w/40 MB free, also have a half full 40 gig drive for my sys apps. Now here's the deal, your program will open and run more smoothly if you free up drive space. If you have room in your PC for another HD, I recommend saving up for a 7200 RPM drive roughly twice the size of your current one, make that your D: drive and put all your big apps and image/music archives on that one to free up your C:drive so your windows will run better/smoother. (Also do periodic defrags and disk cleanups) Now, for memory: more is always better, get as much as possible. (I'm getting more soon) I say bare minimum have 256 for poser to work properly. (For great high-res renders, have alot more) You can buy memory right now for really cheap, 256 meg DIMMS are on eBay all the time for around 35-50 bucks. (check for compatability) Also, your CPU is a factor to consider when rendering, Obviously the faster it is, the faster it renders. The fact that you have Windows 98 does factor into poor poser performance as well, since it leaks memory, the best ways to solve this in ascending order are... 1. constantly save and reboot 2. buy a memory manager that will allocate RAM for you and free it up periodically 3. Upgrade to Windows XP. Its stability is far greater and it manages your resources better. (sorry for the long post, but thats what you get for being tech support)

oh yeah, about your question..hehe....mine does that too, if you jsut wait, it should fix, say no when it asks you if you want to continue looking, that should speed up your freeze.

Thanks guys, I got the free space wrong should have been 9 gigs free. Usually I can set up a maximum scene with props + 6-7 characters inc 2 mill figures + 12 lights and render it with the help of cacheman and a bit of sweating for up to 20 minutes. I've found the freeze up to be mostly some characters in my "new figures" library, obviously freebies that came without textures. I have spent a couple of hours checking them and assigning new textures to them where neccessary. There are still about 10 to go and as from now I'll immediately follow up and test anything I install. Upgrading the PC further would be like Christmas here but the budget looks fairly bleak, cant even afford a new mouse pad right now. Your good advice was appreciated, thanks again, Tommy.

Hogwarden wrote: "Hmmm... Yep, you could do with more RAM, but don't forget that 256MB is the limit for Win98." I just upgraded from Win98 not too long ago, my computer has always had 512 ram and Win98 had absolutely no problem recognizing and utilizing it. Pendy

I'm running 512 ddr and that seems to work, but for the first time I did run out. Had bryce/poser/photoshop/mirc/icq/amorphium going and when I ran a web download in all of that it rammed out. First time it happened to me and I usually run with swap drive disabled for faster performance. So that gives you an idea.

Hey, if a computer is that old, it's possible that it might not be practical to upgrade the computer. Some of the older computers can't be upgraded to current levels. It's hard to tell without more info. A computer with a 20GB hard drive might be fairly recent. However, in the time period where those drives have come, we've also moved to Windows ME. So this is pretty confusing. I started using Poser with Windows ME. I must say that Poser is absolutely terrible with Windows ME, and most likely with Windows 98. Poser just crashes or locks up whenever anything goes wrong. It's kind of like a spoiled child. That point became abundantly clear when I tried out the Windows XP "pre-release" version, then wiped my hard drive and reinstalled Windows ME till I could afford to buy Windows XP Home Edition. I agree that more memory is absolutely essential, as well as a larger hard drive. But you need to discover the maximum memory the motherboard can handle. And then I recommend Windows XP. A 20GB hard drive really isn't much. Mine filled up very quickly when I started installing all my Poser stuff. You have to also take into account the other stuff on that hard drive, and how much room Windows wants for a swap file, etc.

My HP Pavilion is only 3 years old Ron and came with 3.2 gig and 46meg ram, considered adequate back then LOL and it cruised well for all my photo, Coreldraw and internet requirements... Then I purchased Poser4 and worse still discovered Rosity freestuff etc, (know the feeling?)suddenly entered a whole new world of frustrating technology that never seems to work to plan. Painfully obvious these days that a new PC is needed but short of winning the lottery here I am. When I upgraded we tried ME but couldn't find drivers anywhere for half my hardware, hence sticking with Win98. Tommy.

OH, believe me, I remember trying to limp along with a 486DX4-100, 64MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive. Damn, it was next to impossible to do most anything, let alone graphics. I sympathize with you. I was only able to upgrade after I received an unexpected huge paycheck from a former employer. Then I had to replace half of that a year or so later when I got brave and... well we'll save that story for another day.

Hell, I remember the Commodore VIC20 was my first computer. Now does that qualify me as an old fart?