I know this has been covered in here before but for the life of me I can't find it. Last week I began to have issues when rendering at 1500 x 1500 & 100dpi (the smallest I ever render unless I'm working specifically for webwork) - the renders would freeze everytime the little guy stood under the "g". This only happened on some renders and not all of them. They didn't even have to be loaded, a naked V3 with maya hair and high heels would do this and yet a fully dressed v3 in a scene wouldn't. I re-installed Poser - 2x's actually. I defragged. and finally thinking it a memory issue and since I was plannig on it anyhow I bought an additional hard drive and re-installed Poser there. I tried to render the previously saved pz3 with no luck - same issue. I re-created the image from scratch it rendered fine at first. I began to add the hair, and VV magnets - it rendered fine. Then I added Jim Burton's nightlife shoes - it refused to render again. I removed the hair, and left only her feet and the shoes - again it refused to fully render. Now mind you prior to this the images it refused to fully render didn't all have those shoes, but in this case it does. So what now? Reinstall the nightlife shoes? Kick my computer 3x's and tiptoe counter clockwise?? See image for the render result I get

Ok I tried something else, I created a new image V3, DAZ textures, simple lighting and the white shoes from the nightlife shoe collection - rendered fine at 1500 X 1500 and 150 dpi. Then I changed only the shoes to the black strappy ones(that I used before and couldn't render) and it refused to finish rendering. That is just odd as I've never had that type of issue before - and I've used these shoes as they are my favorites. So I tried to render another image that has given me problems and I've been unable to render - a barefoot image and it also refuses to render. I think it hates me :-/

I used to have this problem and for whatever reason if I use 300 dpi it doesn't lock up. I have no idea why this works, but it does. :-)

The DPI setting should be irrelevent, if you are rendering at 1500x1500 pixels, then that is the size the image will be produced at. DPI settings only effect printout. I've never really understood why Poser has this setting !

That's true tbird, but like I said, for whatever reason if I don't have my dpi set at 300 it locks up everytime...I think it's the matchup of the "evil" Poser program and my crappy computer. LOL

Well it won't matter on these renders if I use 72 or 100, 150 or 300 - no render.

I had that problem awhile ago with Stephanie and some of ISOP's stuff, nothing else created that problem with Stephanie but ISOP's items. I think it may be an issue of how your computer handles your memory, not harddrive space. Do you happen to be running Win98? Cause this occurred with Win98 but hasn't happened once since upgrading to XP? How much RAM do you have? Not sure this is the answer, but hope it helps.

Do you have too many files in Poser? When I go over the limit, I can't render.

I had something like that happen with me and v3 but he started back up ..mind you it took a half hour to render! for me it was going in and turning off some programs that were soaking up ram while I was rendering. it kind of jump started the lil red guy again.

WEll I don't know what the damned problem is but I;m starting to get really ticked off! I have 240 MB of RAM - should I add more memory? As for files I don't know if I have too many - what's the limit? I clear it out on a regular basis and it has it's own harddrive now. I frequently clear out items I rarely use and only install them when needed. But there are still a good number of items installed. Today I coudln't even render a 750 x 750 72 dpi image with a v3 wearing only the bottom to BAT's outfit, fairy wings and hair. It was the third in my bondage fae series and now I can't render it. This just began about a week - 2 weeks ago before that I always rendered at a minimum of 1500 and up to 3000. Now I can't do any size that is large enough to do adequate postwork on! I checked at CL but of course there is nothing tehre about rendering issues.

Attached Link: http://www.memturbo.com/

try doing your defrag and all that good stuff. I doubt it is the ram as I have 160 of ram {I cant do highres but I can do some mean renders sometimes BIG ones too as I usually go for 600+ and up as well as 200-900 dpi} but befor you start try going to cntrl+alt+dlt and be brutal with what you end task on leaving what is minimum for runing your sytem. see if that helps any. I have noticed that since I started using a demo or memturbo it HAS helped in that area. GUH I cant remember what thread that was in. anyway here is the link it defrags your mem also has a mem scrub that seems to help.

sorry that was suppose to be "demo OF memturbo"

I actually always end task on absolutly everything I can when I am preparing to render large images. The only thing available in the task box is Explorer. I have scanned disk, cleaned disk and defragged. - but am still having issues - it's insane really. I'll try that demo

the mem turbo reallly recovers ram it helped me with some renders recently I was surprised by it really. You may also try a window washer. it realllllllly cleans your HD. you can even "add bleach" which really scrubs your HD of anything that is not needed like internet temp files...and caches that helps abit too