Greetings! I brought this up a long time ago, and it never was resolved. Thought I'd serve it up again to see if anyone has figured it out. I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop. Both are running Win98se, both have 192 megs of ram. The desk is an AMD K6-2 at 355 mHz; the laptop is also an AMD K6-2 at 500 mHz. Here's the deal: certain conforming figures load fine into the desk but not the laptop. Specific examples would be Jim Burton's "Las Vegas Hair", Kozoburo's "Long Hair" and the Sci-fi Helmet from RDNA. If I try to load those into the laptop, I either get the eternal busy cursor, or the object name in the selector, but no visible object. Either way, the machine crashes in a few minutes. I've tried deleting the geometries RSR, even copying the .obj and .rsr from the desktop to the laptop, all to no avail. Anyone have an idea of what's going on (as marvin gaye would put it)?

Is the file structure of the figures and names EXACTLY the same on both computers? Are you running the same version of Poser on both? What about background programs running on the lap top - stealing processing power? Does the desk have a video card and lap not? I'm getting at a possibility that even though the lap has a faster processor, there may be other factors that make it too doggy to run conforming figures.

About the only difference is that the Desktop has a Gforce video card and the lap, although it has a graphics card, robs ram to drive it.

I thought of the memory question, but I've loaded far larger figures (for example, Kozoburo's long hair is just over 1 meg, and I can load at least two vikki's).

I checked the cr2 files for likeness between the desk and the lap, and can find no difference. The .obj files in geometries successfully loads in Bryce, indicating that those files are not corrupt.

This is really bugging the cr** outta me!

Exact same OS version, service packs, etc. on both? Latest BIOS patches and drivers. I seem to recall something from a long time ago about certain K6's and some incompatibality with something but I can't remember what it was. You might check AMD's site to see if they have anything. Can you even import the obj files? Can you load the hair by itself into a new scene? Can you save a PZ3 with the hair on a figure on the desktop and then open or import it on the laptop?

Yes on all the technical stuff, same discs including windows and updates used on both computers. I have imported the .obj into Bryce successfully, but didn't think to do it in Poser, so I just tried it and it worked! I guess this means the problem is interpreting the .cr2 file... I'll have to check it again, but I'm sure it's the same, how could the file change from one original?

I assume you've tried copying the "working" cr2 to the laptop with no success. For giggles, you might try editing the cr2 and changing the two obj references to another obj file though I'm not sure what that would prove either way You might try loading the cr2 into Morph Managae and stripping out all the morphs and try it that way. I doubt the helmet has any morphs though. Have you tried resaving it on the desktop to a new file/name and then tried that on the laptop? If it's not the size and the file isn't corrupt, I can only say it's a mystery for future generations :-)

I haven't tried the renaming idea (makes postit note), so I'll give that a try. This may all be moot, 'cuz the laptop is starting to act up (backlight won't go on if I open the lid further than 45deg.) What's up with that?

Oops! sounds like some kind of contact or microswitch problem. Considering the age and repair costs, it may be time to put the old girl out to pasture.

Just the excuse I need to upgrade. Now where can I find an extra grand...? :-)