Tired of that time lag,when searching through your library folders for that perfect sword or scantly clad outfit??? Easy to fix...just unistall Quick Time player from your machine. If you really must have QT installed on you "puter" (as a friend of mine needed it for Illustrator),there is another workaround.... Delete the "Mac" plugin found in your Runtime>ImageIOPlugins folder. This goes back to the legacy coding as the original Poser was ported to Mac's and used QT for display. You don't need it...but you will see a big different in your library display. SWAMP

Interesting. Is this for Mac or PC users, or both?

By George, it works! I use QT often for frame-by-frame viewing, so I can't get rid of it. As you described, I renamed the ***Mac.MRW plugin, and sure enough, things move about twice as fast!

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Wow, that does make a big difference. Man, do I hate Quicktime. Once it gets its tentacles into your machine, you have to edit your registry to remove it. It constantly gives me that "qttask.exe." error message. I use it just enough to keep it around, but I'm constantly having to edit msconfig in order to keep it from automatically starting up every time I turn on the computer.

randym77,As I'm on a PC,I can't say how it works on a Mac.
But if you are on a Mac,try it....I suspect it may be calling for an older version of QT. Edited as I see you already tried it. SWAMP

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However... Poser (for Windows, anyway) needs Quicktime in order to be able to open or save to certain image file types, including GIF and PCT. If you uninstall QT, this may get broken.

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Bob, you're right. Without the Mac plugin, GIFs, PCTs, and a bunch of other file types vanish. You can no longer import or export them from Poser.

But I think it's fair trade, for me. The file types I use most often - PSD, JPG, PNG, and TIF - all still work. For now, I will rename the Mac plugin, just in case I find I need it in the future. Losing those file types is worth the speed increase, for me. I always postwork my images, anyway, if only to adjust them for filesize vs. quality issues. So if I really need a GIF, Photoshop can do it.

"Once it gets its tentacles into your machine, you have to edit your registry to remove it. " There really oughta be a law against installers that forcibly insert their settings into your registry. For me, the worst thing is programs that put their own defaults into the desktop-right-click mechanism, so that I have to pick from 10 different obscure kinds of documents (most of which refer to apps that I've already removed!) when trying to set up a simple shortcut.

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I'm probably deluded, but it seems that this change also makes Poser's disobedient dialog boxes work a little faster. Especially the "don't save" choice.

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What an awesome tip! My libraries are flyin now. The loss of .pct and .gif support is really no loss at all, LOL.

Wow! I must say this is excellent advice! I just changed the file from ImageIO_Mac.mrw to ImageIO_Mactemp.mrw and now my folders are screaming! Amazing how legacy code like this sticks around a program. - Noel

Well yes,if you rename or delete the plugin,you do lose GIF and PCT...but that's not too big a deal, as you can still convert/play/etc. outside of Poser. "Once it gets its tentacles into your machine, you have to edit your registry to remove it. " I hear you... While there are dozens of registry cleaners/editors out....."Registry First Aid" is miles ahead of all of them. It really will find EVERY unwanted registry entry.

Awesome tip SWAMP!! Just deleted that file, and now my libraries are 5x faster...Thanks for the tip!!

Hi, I have a mac computer. I also have quicktime but I can't seem to find that file anywhere on my computer. Love esther

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Wow! Cool tip. Probably will not find this file on a Mac - it wouldn't be needed as the MacOS can handle pict and gif file types natively. Suspect MetaCreations just included this in the Windows version as the lazy way out (rather than implementing pict & gif support in the Poser code).

Thanks :)

Excellent tip.

I think I'll just bow at your feet now ...

I just did the rename on that plugin file and it took Poser 5 about 2 minutes to open rather than the approximately 7 to 10 minutes that it used to take. That alone makes this a good thing.

Am I missing something here? My Libraries have always opened in a second or so, even back when I had a P4 on a Pentium 200. P5 also opens in about 10 seconds on my current 2.8 Pentium 4, might even be faster than P4. Maybe you guys just need faster computers... ;-) I do get a HUGE delay when it can't find a texture file and I tell it to stop looking, though.

Ooo, now that is a gem! :) Beth

I just tried it, and it didn't seem to make a difference with Poser4 on an AMD 1800 plus.

Jim, I have a 2.6 GHz P4 with 1 GB RAM and P5 has always taken forever to open on it. Your computer must like you or something :P

It works! Thanks a lot! :D

It works Great!!
Makes a big difference for those larger folders.

Started converting file formats already. No more gif's for me.

Jim, I have noticed that the size of the Runtime folder makes a lot of difference. If I open my "P5 Lights" runtime, at a mere 132mb, and then click between the library palettes, it's always been very fast, practically no delay. However, my V3 runtime, at a shade under 3gb, has always bogged the program down. This tip does seem to have improved the reaction speed by about 50% on my machine. I'm on Win XP, Athlon 2.4gb CPU with a gig of DDR RAM.

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ahh. thank you SO much SWAMP! it really works!! deleted just the MAC plugin instead of uninstall QT! WOW feel like x5 faster than b4! Cheers

I have a HUGE runtime and this really made a difference. I didnt notice (maybe I missed it) whether this works for both Poser 4 and 5??

I've found these things in my poser 4 and 5 runtimes. I'm on a amc computer. what do you think? ImageIO_Mac_M.mrw Love esther

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i couldnt resist ; ) sorry for my 2nd post but i have to say IT WORKS! THANK YOU SWAMP FOR THIS AWESOME TIP! yay 8-)

Thanks for the advice - big increase in speed here too! Craig

I think this should go in the FAQ!

Thanks a lot !!!!

I've got P5 on an external hard-drive, with most of my content in external runtime folders on the same drive, and noticed an annoying lag when doing anything in those runtimes. However, I renamed that file, and have experienced a marked decrease in the amount of time it take to switch between runtimes and load things from those runtimes. Thanks much.

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I've found these things in my poser 4 and 5 runtimes. I'm on a amc computer. what do you think?
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Try renaming it, and see what happens. I'm curious about whether this tip works for Macs, too. If the Mac version really needs the file, you can always name it back.

I, too, find that dumping this file really speeds things up. I think it is related to the size of the runtime, and I guess mine are kind of bloated. It's noticeably faster, navigating around the library.

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Wow works great. For anyone who wants to get rid of that qttask.exe, there is a little freeware program called hijackthis. It will get rid of it for you and it won't come back. http://s89223352.onlinehome.us/mirror/hjt/ This is the link for it. It should help you with your problem I have used it and gotten rid of different things and they haven't come back. Beth

Hi, I just renamed the file ImageIO_Mac_M.mrw to renamed_ImageIO_Mac_M.mrw on my apple mac G4 and I think it is very much faster switching between libraries eg pose to cameras to figures etc. Unless it's my imagination. Well I'll be darned. Love esther

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Thanks for the report. Sounds like it's safe and effective for Apple users, too!

Any other Worms out there want to try it, and see if it's Esther's imagination or not? ;-)

Sweet. While modularity is a good thing (why reinvent the wheel when there are already libraries that can do it for you), it looks like there must be something wrong with QT itself to make it that slow. Thanks for the tip! Rendering Quicktime movies is still working here (P5 on OS X), so just living without image formats I never use anyway is a small price to pay :)

I just tried it and my libraries open faster but Poser itself does not launch faster. France

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Poser launches faster and so do my bulkiest folders. This should be "Tip of the Year". Many thanks for this timesaver. I usually go and do several other things while Poser is launching, sometimes it's still not open when I come back.....this will be a life saver and I can add some files I've been keeping in a dummy runtime. Eureka!!! YOU found it!!!

Do you think it would speed things up even more if we were to rename other extension plugins like FPX, TGA, TIFF? And should we rename also the file Messages_Mac.txt and other corresponding text files in the same folder? I only use PNG and JPG so I would not mind not having the rest of the extension plugins if it would make Poser work faster. France

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Before I try this. Has it effected Bryce? I only installed QT to get Bryce to read PNG's. I still need Bryce to read all the image formats.

If you go the alternative route of renaming Poser's ***Mac.MRW plugin, Quicktime can stay installed and so Bryce will be unaffected.

Yeah, that is probably it, I don't have much in my P5 runtime, I use it mostly for testing and I tend to delete the stuff when I'm finished.

Thanks,I give it a try.

Is this tip for Poser5 only? My Poser4 libraries have always opened quickly, and there is a file named "ImageIO_Mac.mrw" in my ImageIOPlugins folder. Removing or renaming this file makes no difference - the libraries still open quickly. I have Quicktime6.1 installed. Maybe my 8GB Runtime counts as tiny nowadays? Glad so many benefitted from the tip. Good catch SWAMP.

Obviously this is an excellent tip, and it seems to make a difference for a lot of people. But I have to agree with Jim Burton. Both Poser 4 and 5 have always opened quickly on my machine (10secs and 30 secs respectively), and I've never had any problem with slow libraries. I have a similar machine to Jim's (P4 2.6/512RAM) and I also have a pretty small Runtime. I keep al the spare Runtime stuff elsewhere. I've never had Quicktime or any other unneccessary apps installed. If I don't need it, I don't install it. Simple as that. mac

Re-reading my post, something occurred to me. Poser 4 opened quickly on my old machine too, and it was an 800 Mhz junkheap. I don't think power is a factor with Poser. I've always kept a very slim Runtime, and I'm sure that's what makes the difference. mac

Just wondering, did anyone see if this worked for PCs?

Er, yes, SWAMP did (see post 5).

Swamp, did I miss a post where it said how you might have made the connection and stumbled onto this bit of wisdom in the first place? Just curious. And do any other formats stop working other than .GIF and .PSD (and .MOV I presume)? Sorry, long thread and may have skimmed past that info.

PSD still works. It's the Mac formats, like PCT, that go bye-bye. It doesn't seem to affect the ability to render Quicktime movies. You could try renaming the file. If it breaks something you use, just name it back.

Odd...simply renaming the file didn't seem to do anything for me. But then I moved it out to a different directory and WHOA what a difference! Thanks SWAMP! This is the first tip that actually sped P5 up for me.

I did have to get out of Poser and back in again before I noticed any speed increase. (I had Poser open when I renamed the file.)

I didn't.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THANK YOU!

Big thanks, SWAMP. Definitely worked for me.

Amazing! I've gone from almost a minute between library changes to only a few seconds. Thank you so much!

Great tip. All I had to do was rename the extension and BLAMMO - faster.

howdy folks,

I tried the "fix" & it definetly speeds up library loads (thanx swamp :-). However while it's true that GIF files no longer work on models (although I can import a GIF as a background pic), I must have a weird version of Poser because pct files (reflection maps) still show up in the menus, load, & render just fine. addendum: GIFs still work as transmaps, just not as tex/bum maps

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pct files are mac image extensions. Most reflection maps are plain
ol' jpegs >^_^

Momcat, the default Poser 4 reflection maps are SilverRefl.pct & GoldRefl.pct (I don't know if it's the same in P5 though)

The reflection maps are .pct in both P4 and P5,and can't be opened (if you went the renamed plugin route). Just open them in any image editor,and save back to .jpg or .tif ,then your all set. Note:DON'T try to rename them (or any image file) by hand...you'll really screw them up. Have fun,SWAMP

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Just noticed something else in that folder. The "Messages_JPG.txt" file. Edit out the crazy jpg resolutions you never use. (Like who in their right mind wants to save at 25%)

If you follow this advice, you have a high chance that some of your pz3 files which use the imageio plugin wont open anymore - happened to me after renaming it.

Wow... this is some tip. I renamed the Mac file, didn't touch QT. My Poser start is unchanged, over 2 minutes (HUGE Runtime) but: My Libraries list opening time has gone from as much as 15 seconds to - ZERO!! Instant. Amazing. Thanks! :] Fish

I found this issue entirely confusing. I thought at one time that Poser 5 was supposed to be written from scratch, and that we wouldn't get any of that crappy Poser 4 code. Or at least, I thought we wouldn't get any Mac code since there is Mac version of Poser 5!? I renamed the file in question, and it doesn't seem to have affected the loading time. But then I use external Runtimes anyway.

Well Bobbie,you stated in another thread that you don't have QT installed. If you don't have QT installed renaming the plugin isn't going to do anything for you. I'm like you and prefer not to have QT at all (I find it a very intrusive program)......renaming the plugin is for people that can't live without QT. As for Poser5's code not being rewritten as CL promised....well that's pretty old news now. SWAMP

OH! I see. Maybe Poser 6 or Poser 7 will be a total re-write? I will hold off on any future Poser purchases till they do the real rewrite.

Awesome tip, my runtimes are huge and this really speeded them up. Using poser 6 at the time. Thanks, Marque

Marque, A quick note, If you have Bryce, you need QT to have it work right.

At first this sped up how long it took Poser 6 to open, but now, P6 takes about 10-15 minutes to open up on my machine. My sister has been using it to rig a figure she modeled, but other than that, I've been using DS since it only takes a few seconds to load.

I haven't tried this trick with P6, because it opens a lot faster than P5 anyway.

The size of the runtime makes a big difference with Poser. Switching to multiple runtimes and moving them outside the Poser folder really sped things up for me.

Great tip! Opening libraries is much faster! Starting is faster too.

Gee, 10-15 MINUTES? Poser 6 takes about 13 seconds to start on my machine. DAZ Studio (a beta version) takes about 4 seconds.

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Quote - Jim, I have a 2.6 GHz P4 with 1 GB RAM and P5 has always taken forever to open on it. Your computer must like you or something :P

Sounds like you need to look into multiple runtimes. When I had all of my files in the main Poser runtime, it took forever to open Poser. Now I have many, many runtimes and Poser takes less than 1 minute to open, probably less.

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Actually, I do have several runtimes, about 12 of them.

The larger your runtime the longer it takes to open Poser. Try creating an empty runtime and have that as your active runtime when you log out of Poser. When you open Poser it shouldn't take very long to open.

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Quicktime is an Apple originated multimedia system which handles AFAIK video (.mov), images and audio as well. "Just noticed something else in that folder. The "Messages_JPG.txt" file. Edit out the crazy jpg resolutions you never use. (Like who in their right mind wants to save at 25%)" Not good in P4 at least. I tried that idea earlier and ended up with crappy .jpg images. Turns out the thing is apparently position based - position 1 is 25% so even if you remove all but 100%, that's now position 1 on the menu but 25% is still what you get.

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I've heard you can still render movies in Quicktime, even if you rename that file. But I wouldn't know. Quicktime won't run on my machine, with or without Poser.