Hello, fellow Poser friends! This is my first post to the forum, although I have been an avid follower here for about a month. Anyway, I have completed an animated sequence in Poser 4 that impliments quite a few simultaneous, complex movements (including camera, figure, and lights), and have attempted to render the movie to AVI format with no success. The problem seems to be that the scene is quite large, and with multiple lights each casting shadows, every time I go to render the first sequence of the animation, which is only about 90 frames, the render fails after the first frame, and gives me this exact message: "Caught C exception: exception_access violation trapped at 17f:442ae6" Then I'm left with no choice but to CTL-ALT-DEL out of the program because it won't function after that message. This message also occurs not only when trying to render the animation with full "shadows, bumps, and textures", but it will also occur if I render a fram (any frame) of the animation to preview it, then try do render it a SECOND time. It's always on the second render attempt. I've tried to render the animation as a series of images, but it always gets trapped after the first frame is finished. So I've been painstakingly rendering each frame individually by hand, then saving it as an image, closing out of the program, going immediately back in the program, rendering the next frame, saving it, and doing the same over and over. I don't mind having the frames rendered as images then bring them into a seperate program to make them into an AVI or whatever, but this process of having to close out the program and go back in after rendering each frame is a pain in the butt! hehe. Is there anyone out there experienced in animating complex or heavily textured and lighted scenes that has experienced the same problem? Is there a fix out there for it, or is it something to do with my system? Here's the specs on the machine I'm running: Windows 98 Pentium 2 256 Meg Ram 30 gig hard drive Diamond Stealth 64 bit graphics card with 32 meg on board Is it the ram that's killing me? If so, why is it that I can always render the first time, but upon the second render... it gets trapped? Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much! :-)

Sorry, but I forgot to mention that I downloaded the patch fix and have that installed. :-) Still, no luck.

Hi Zandar, if you don't get an answer in this forum try the 3D Animation forum...link on right forums panel--------------> Good luck, Tribe.

Well, its certainly not a problem caused by memory (256Mb is what I used to have on my system and I didn't have problems with multiple figures/lights when I did animation). What codec are you using? I seem to recall that there was a similar problem someone was having pre-patch and I think it was caused by a corrupt DLL (dredging stuff up from the darkest recesses of my memory). Paul