please please please can anyone help? my version of poser ha started beig really troublesome when rendering... let me give you background first: i run an athlon 1200 with 700 meg of ram... also running windows 98se and poser pro pack..but previously had the problem in poser 4.03 as well... now here is the trouble.i can happily set up scene after scene with any figure i choose....even the old millenium dragon desnt ause much trouble when setting up and posing etc...and yet when i click the render button the program will just hang on the render....the bit before it renders the lightmaps....the computer has not crashed but poser itself has just frozen...ctrl,alt,del will allow me to close the program down instantly and i can continue to use both if i ru the program again no problem unless i try to render! a restart will usually allow the render to take place..although recently that has not been the case... ive tried changing my virtual memory, freed up alot of harddrive space, and yet stil the same problem..i admit i thought it was the millenium dragon himself being too big..but i tried a render with vicky and the fallen angel wings and it did the same...now i know she is not big enough to cause any problems..... has anyone encountered this and sorted it? im getting very close to pulling my hair out and re formatting my system which i just dont wish to do...the last time i did that i forgot to back up my artwork and lost it all...was not amused! ... any ideas will be much appreciated cheers kirisute

You may find it's a problem with an RSR file in with the geometry(obj)I had that when I first got Poser & a message saying out of memory, which I knew wasn't so...try deleting the RSR files in the geometry folder & you should be fine.

using highresolution maps causes the problem.But the real problem is win98 .Since i run win xp i have no more problems. What helped me a bit before: reducing the mapsize of the textures in photoshop or similar.Editing the matposes, so than no bumpmaps are loaded. And at last, saving the scene, shut down poser , restart the pc and render the scene with a clean memory.

I actually experienced the same problem when I switched to XP & reinstalled Poser but maybe I was just unlucky...mine's good as gold now...just hope P5 is when it arrives.

Hmmm. One option you may want to try before you face the upgrade monster. There's a nice little freeware proggie out there called Cacheman. It plunks an icon in your taskbar, and runs in the background. What it does is cull through your system RAM and clear it of files that are no longer being accessed. You have full control over how often it does this, can manually start a sweep, and so on. A lot of programs don't clean up after themselves, and neither does Windows (probably the worst offender of the lot. Wonder if you could get them for littering, considering all the dll's that get scattered?.

I was having the same problem with Win98, too, before I found Cacheman. Now I set up a scene & save it, then free up memory with Cacheman and render. This works for a while (12 or 15 renders), but the amount of memory that gets freed seems to get smaller & smaller, and eventually I freeze when trying to render again. At that point, shutting down & restarting the program doesn't help, I have to reboot the whole system. (I hope XP works better when I get it installed ....)

woot i was about to put this thread up thanks for the tips i had a feelin it was memory issue (tho it never saidout of memory)

hmm...not managed to get the scene rendered yet even with cacheman! LOL...great suggestions everyone and thanks for you time and comments....i fear my only recourse may well be to buy more ram!!!! still dont trust XP enough to purchase it...working the the IT industry ive seen a alot of hassle with it to fork out on it just yet!