That has happened in the past, though not often.

What I do is make a note of what it's trying to to find and make sure it's installed, if it isn't I install it. Sometimes though, the artist has decided not to use that texture and has renamed it without changing the mat pose. In that case just use that texture and point the mat pose to it when it asks where the other one is.

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If you describe the problem, perhaps we can help. If you go back a page or two there are library issues discussed and some solutions. PP2012 works fine for me now.

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You really have to file a bug report or two with Smith Micro themselves. There are too many dependent factors that it would take mere users months to work it out. They will at least have tested everything and will have more of a handle on what is likely to be going on. You can't just soldier on with an unsolved issue.

I haven't personally experienced anything like what you describe

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Flash is one thing I don't have problems with in Windows 8, it's embedded into IE and once it's in, that's it, it's in. It appear that it's 64 bit too which it never was in Windows 7. People with Windows 7 would bang on about having 64 bit Flash, they didn't! There was a dialog box on the Adobe site which told them which version of Windows they had, not Flash! In Control Panel when you looked at Hardware and Sound, right at the bottom was a listing for Abobe Flash Player and plain for all to see, in brackets it said 32 Bit! Had there been 64 bit Flash installed, that would have said 64 bit, end of!

There is also 64 bit Flash in Waterfox, but, it's a specially coded plug-in version for that browser alone and is downloaded and installed from the Waterfox site and not Adobe's.

So far, touch wood, aside from stupid things I've done myself, I haven't had any issues with Windows 8 and I'd highly recommend upgrading. You will have a fun time locating drivers but, once you do, it's a great piece of kit.

I'd recommend a clean install of PP2012 with the Runtime in your Documents library.

Have a creative 2013

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Interesting,

Not really done much with materials save for loading everyone else's.

I got Windows 8 in the end, and, after much tinkering, I really like it. PP2012 runs and has only crashed once, but I think that was due to corrupt xmls so I've deleted them and started afresh.

When I spoke to SM about the issue the other guy had, they said that PP2012 was fully compatible with Win 8 and it was a DSON problem. Daz said that not many of them had Win 8 so they hadn't tested DSON in it.

Thank god nothing happened to me or they'd still be debating it in February!

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I haven't come across what you describe, so I can't really comment. Smith Micro have been quite (I can't quite say very) helpful when it comes to the issues I've had.

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I said this in another thread, but, I'll reiterate it here, just in case anyone reads this thread first:

I can upgrade to Win 8 Pro for £14.99 till the end of Feb. So far, only one thing is holding me back.

A guy on the DAZ forum said that, after he upgraded to Win 8, he ran PP2012 and it crashed when he loaded a DSON'ed Genesis figure and went to dial a pose. What do you suppose happened there!?

If anyone has any ideas I'll gladly pass them on. If the issue gets solved and I don't hear any more tales of woe from you guys then I'll happily upgrade.

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I can upgrade to Win 8 Pro for £14.99 till the end of Feb. So far, only one thing is holding me back.

A guy on the DAZ forum said that, after he upgraded to Win 8, he ran PP2012 and it crashed when he loaded a DSON'ed Genesis figure and went to dial a pose. What do you suppose happened there!?

If anyone has any ideas I'll gladly pass them on. If the issue gets solved and I don't hear any more tales of woe from you guys then I'll happily upgrade.

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I guess,

I have already found one guy saying that PP2012 crashes when he imports a Genesis figure and tries to pose it when using Windows 8.

There's a reply in the RDNA forums about something as well, but I can't locate the thread!

The offer runs till the end of February so there's time for things to be sorted out.

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I can't say I've ever used that dialog box myself. I select figure parts using the dropdowns just near the preview window.

Is anyone using PP2012 in Windows 8 right now!? I'm seriously mulling over taking advantage of the seemingly amazing 'Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro for £14.99' offer and have yet to find any reasons why I shouldn't go for it.

If PP2012 runs well in it then I really could bite the bullet and go for it. Anyone!?

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I agree, that's like doing open heart surgery with a pair of household tweezers. You could probably do it, but one wouldn't recommend it!

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Yep, it's all in the indexing, basically, go to every AppData folder (you have to have 'access hidden files and folders' checked) you can find and run a search (top right box) if it asks if you want to index it, do it. It sped everything up, not just Poser. I used to wonder why Windows Live Mail was always slow at checking emails, it was the caches, they weren't indexed.

Now every folder I know of that has caches is indexed, it's like having a new computer again!

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The library issue is solved!!

The folders where Poser has caches weren't indexed. Open the relevant AppData folder and run a search, if you have a message coming up that the folder isn't indexed, follow the instructions and add it to the index.

It's great how the issues that are staring you in the face and are the simplest to fix are the last ones you think of!

Hallelujah!!

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Hmm, there's no cache for the library, only the XML's. The only caches are for undo, renders and textures.

Something has got to come to mind that will solve this....

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Yeah, I do kind of get what you're saying, but, it's like this on 2 different laptops. Different processor, different hard drive, different amounts of RAM. Same caches though I suppose as they both run 64 bit Windows 7 and everything is installed in the same place. Even with a full, and I mean FULL, defrag the library has been slow on first load. The other thing is that anything else I load post boot is always fast, email, browsers, Word, Photoshop. If the drive was badly fragmented they'd all be slow, wouldn't they!?

Thing is though, as I mentioned earlier, I installed P8 alongside it and linked it to the PP2012 runtime. No matter when I loaded that the library was super fast. Something added to the PP2012 library is doing this somehow.

Hmmmm, I've added what I said in my previous post to my bug report, so, I'll see if they have any suggestions.

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