@elena_c

You have a displacement map for Apollo Maximus? The arms look great with it!

Now also PP2014. But I assume this should work in the prior versions which can import Genesis too.

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I really hate the fat three lines above this web page (as highlighted in the screen shot). I understand the importance of the upper one. But the symbols at the right corner waste too much space (like that nonsense new Adobe Acrobat Reader), The middle line is a total waste of space with just four buttons. And did anyone ever used the button 'Mark All Read'. I mean I get it that it is supposed for people with memory issues. But they probably forget to use it - so what's the point? Third line: five buttons at the left - nothing else. This is a showcase of the web designer's vanity and reduces display of the comments of the forum users. On my 1280x1024 display monitor (125% font size) I get just the first comment...

Oh and the line at the bottom: really why do we have to get these Facebook, Twitter etc. buttons EVERYWHERE? We know how to find Rendo elsewhere. We're here because we don't want to be at Facebook and co. right now. Get rid of these space wasting graphic display of obesity or do it much much smaller!
PLEASE.

As if AmbientShade's comment from Thursday at 12.20 AM was never posted... This feels somehow like the Star Trek (TOS) episode 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefield'.

"I totally agree with Dreamland Models.  I don't want to be forced or nagged into updating until I am ready."

The irony here is that Dreamland Models indeed UPDATED his Windows 7 because that's the only way you get the mentioned KB3035583 on your PC - when you update Windows.  He wouldn't have this Windows 10 invasion if he had looked for information about this KB - not at Microsoft (which only described it as: "Provides an update that installs the Get Windows 10 app, which helps users understand their Windows 10 upgrade options and device readiness")  but via Google. Concerning Microsoft's reputation: why are people still using Microsoft's automatic updates? I'll activate them only every three months and look for information before I download anything from the updates.

"I have been running Windows 10 for about 3 days now, and once I had everything set up the way I wanted it, I haven't had any problems. At least none that I can see. Everything works fine."

Even the bluescreen monster Windows 98 could work faultless for three days... Let's discuss Windows 10 if people worked with it for at least three months.

@Asteroid Lady: I think you mean 16 GB RAM? This is of course large enough. If it would have been 2 GB it could be unresponsive I guess.

The render PREVIEW settings could matter because of hardware shadings. But with 16 GB RAM there can't be a memory problem.

So the problem must be somewhere else.

You followed SSGBryan's recommendation which would have been my first answer to solve this problem too. Then you answered that "they are working now". So far...

"But:

I have this M4-based character that I've been working on a long time, kind of in the background while doing various side projects. He's my favorite, and I've put a lot of time and care into him. Because he was started before I ran that file to fix M4, his morphs are still in the long sloppy list, and I still can't load the body morphs from Morphus or this one other set, and I think he needs them. I had been morphing his body one part at a time, because the one morph set would load the morphs for the individual parts but not the full body ones, and they weren't smooth, I had to be careful to match up all the seams and then sometimes when I posed him they would split, so I would like to just start over with that set. I don't want everything I've done so far to go to waste."

I have the feeling your saved morphs in the file do not correspondent with the paths in your file. Do you have Poser File Editor? With that you could analyse the path file to the morphs. For example, for M4 base morphs from DAZ:

readScript ":Runtime:Libraries:!DAZ:Michael 4:Deltas:InjDeltas.M4BaseAll.pz2"

You can find that also with the simple editor in your Windows version. Can you open your saved file and find the line that directs to the Morphus morphs? If so look if the path is correct and also if they are really in that folder.

Also to look for:

according to the DAZ product page Morphus morphs require the product 'Michael 4 Morphs ++'. You probably have it, otherwise you couldn't have worked with it before...

And is it possible that you saved your file with "external binary morph targets" (under Misc in General Preferences)? Then there must be also a *.pmd file. If so look for it.

1. Which morphs or poses with these problems did you use?

2. How much GB RAM do you have?

3. How are your Render Preview Settings?

I have "only" 8 GB RAM and a four core processor but I'm able to load a Genesis 2 Male figure faster than a Michael 4 with base and ++ morphs in Poser Pro 2014. I really don't get the animosities displayed here or in other threads regarding some users who are also using DS or are vendors for them. I've seen a lot of Poser renders at Deviant and other places who are using the Genesis figures. So please Glitterati3D and vilters, keep in mind that there are users who want to be informed about the suitability of these figures in Poser or/and with third party render software. Only a minority of them is writing here as often as you do but that doesn't mean they don't exist and value the informations they get through others.

This happens to me too when I use M4. There is something wrong with some morphs in certain packages. It's not exactly DAZ's fault, because you don't have that problem with DAZ's Michael 4 base and ++ morphs (or with the Aged, Elite, Muscle or SimonWM's morphs). It's a failure created by some vendors (probably not using Poser) but you usually don't have to got through the whole list of morphs.

In most cases it's easy to find at the end of the list for your "Michael4-body". So at the end there are probably "INJection Channels" with subs "DAZ" and "Community". The same for "Michael 4-head". The problematic balloon morphs can mostly be changed within those parameters.

@vilters: "DAZ is the only software company I know of that cracked/hacked into its own system to create the DSON , to get "something", sometmes, working in Poser, at a HUGE memory cost, but that is yet another discussion."

 Sometimes? This is not the case on my PC. It always loads and nothing loads longer than a minute, most things are faster for example clothes. Only some (fiber) hair loads longer than that. I have only 8 GB RAM and I'm able to load four to six Genesis 2 Male characters (M6) in a scene (depends on hair and clothes, can't tell about V6 I don't have her). It was sluggish in the G1 days yes but it changed a lot to the better.

Yes. Only the 'data' and 'Runtime' folder. But start to read the manual before you ask the next question about installing DSON:

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dson_importer/poser/userguide/dson_installation_requirements/tutorials/dson_installation/start

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dson_importer/poser/userguide/dson_importer_usage/tutorials/using_dson_importer/start

And keep in mind that you need DAZ Studio for creating your own Poser companion files! Because you can and will convert clothes from M3/V3 or M4/V4 to Genesis (M5/V5) or Genesis 2 (M6/V6) in a few easy steps. But you don't need DS's 'Camera Presets' etc. for that. :-)

You're right, the M4 speedo fit is not great. I know some of DZheng's products but I think they look mostly too skimpy just like the bikinis for the Victorias :-).  But thanks for the reminder about Phs7ven BodyWears for Michael4. I have that! And I will now converting them in DS and creating textures for it. Thanks! :-)

@Male_M3dia:

There are hundreds of bikinis for the Victorias of any generation. But I have only one speedo for Michael. M4 to be correct. I used DS to convert the speedo from the M4 'Basic Wear' (Upgrade) for G1-M5 and G2-M6. It was not a perfect fit for M4 and does not have very much morph options. They have some underwear for M4 to M6 but if you retexure it, it still does look like underwear and not like a speedo for the pool. Can't you create one for M6? :-)

Brazil - Germany 1:7

I did not see Brazil in the finale but neither Germany. I'm really surprised that Germany kicked them off with this result. Brazil obviously relied too much on Neymar during the World Cup. We'll see whether the Netherlands or Argentina will join us. On the first page I thought Italy and Argentina would be the two last teams. Since I was so wrong about Italy I hope now that the Oranje team will follow us - still like their orange uniform the most.

Boni, try to check the disc on someone elses driver if it's possible. Friends, workplace? Because it's also possible that the disc is empty. Had something like that once with a music CD. Also had once a DVD with a different film than the one that was labelled on the disc. A simple error by the factory who prints the discs is something most people don't think of when ruling out the source of the problem. But it happens.