Just wondering if anyone has paid attention to the largest size scene they have rendered in P5? I have tried repeatedly to render a 148 Meg PZ3 and just keep getting a locked system.I get through textures and objects loaded and about 20% rendered and thats it. Tried letting it run overnight with no success. Render options are maxed out, scene consists of 12 objects, approx 200,000 polys, 5 spotlights, maybe 40 Megs of textures, caustics, and raytraced shadows. Yeah, I know, BUT I have rendered scenes this large and complex in Vue4 in a couple hours time without a hitch. Running a P4 2.2,512 of DDR333, Geforce 4 Ti4600, striped 80 Gig drives with 8 Meg cache each, another of the same for boot partition, and an SCSI3 drive JUST for my page file, so I dont think its the machine except maybe low RAM, so I sent off for another 256 today, guess I will try again when it gets here.

Since I noticed this in another thread, its NOT virtual mem. I checked, never had higher than a 1.2 Gig peak commit charge with 2.5 Gigs available.

I've never used the poser5 program WITHOUT getting a full system lock up!..My pc is quite powerful, but it can't seem to handle poser very much..(wonder if any pc system can!) hmm..OFten it crashes in the middle of rendering..and that's odd!

Are you running Windows XP, I think this may be a Poser 5/XP issue although thus far in my enquiries with Curious Labs they've dodged the issue either by suggesting I should render my scene/s in separate parts (e.g. render vicki 3 and her clothes and hair separately) or use lower res. textures, or simply by suggesting it's DAZ's problem because their models are too complex. I have a similar spec. system (Athlon XP 2200+, 2x80GB hard drives in a striped RAID, RADEON 9500PRO, 1.5GB of memory and 2.5GB of pagefile on a separate partition) and I've had the same problem even working with much smaller scenes but with highest detail turned on in the firefly renderer. I think Curious Labs need a bit more pressure applied to provide a serious response to this issue.

Just read another thread on XP/Poser 5 stability problems - there's definitely an issue here (is anyone at Curious Labs listening?), one user said that if he runs Poser 5 in Windows 2000 compatability mode he has no problems, I'll be giving this a go.

well, thanks anyway andrepeterhill :-)

how do you run P5 in win2000 compatibility mode?

ah just figured it out. its an XP setting i was thinking there was something in P5 itself.