Sometimes,not ever but very frequently,when I push the render button Poser freeze and I've to ctrl+alt+canc and shut down the program:I'm really frustrated by this....I've lost a lot of time..... Please,if someone have an idea... Thank you

If you have Windows 98/Me you are probably running into memory managing issues. Complex scenes, and expecially high res textures, overwhelm Win98/Me's ability to deal with the memory required to render.

You can try:

1. reduce the size of as many texture maps as you can. Not applying bumps unless you really need them helps too.
2. try a memory managing program like Cacheman (available at several free download locations such as C-Net's downloads)
3. install more memory if you don't have a lot. Note that anything over 512 in Win98/Me causes new problems...this is really only helpful with that OS if you have less than 256k of ram.
4. be sure nothing else is running in the background taking up valuable memory space. Restarting windows to give it a fresh go and closing any superflous apps that start on boot often helps Poser get going.
5. render in "layers". Render all the background stuff, then the forground stuff, perhaps even break up the figures as separate renders if you have multiple Mikes/Vickis. Save them all out as tiffs so you get the alpha channel mask, then composite them back together with postwork.
6. install Windows 2000 or XP which has far superior memory managment. It can take advantage of a much bigger paging (swap) file when it needs to even if it means the render goes much slower.

Also note that if you have to ctrl+alt+del your way out of a poser lockup, the object rsrs often get corrupted. If you get errors when you return to poser, use Windows search to find all rsr's in the geometry folder and delete them. It is VITAL that you only delete the rsrs from the geometries folder, and you must NEVER delete the poser.rsr file in the main poser folder. Poser will make new rsrs next time you use that obj...if you then make it a read only file it can't get corrupted again.

ggtonet, I had exactly the same problem as you. I upgraded from windows ME to XP pro and everything has been great since. Jack

Thank you scifiguy and lemur01 for your help! Effectively I've a windows 98 (second edition),and this problem happened with big textures!! Now I'll try Cacheman,waiting for windows XP or N.A.S.A. computer!