Machine: Athlon 1G, 1G DDRAM, GeForce FX 5200 graphics card, Poser is on it's own hard disk, 40G total, 12G free, defragged. Yesterday afternoon, I opened Poser, added a figure...and nothing appeared in the window. When I put the mouse over the window, you can see the mesh is there, as the outlines show up. When I try to render, it gets stuck at the beginning, and just sits there. I've reinstalled Poser, and this morning installed it on another hard drive, and it does the same thing. All my other apps (Vue, Vue Pro, Photoshop, etc) seem to be fine, only Poser is acting flakey. Might this be a graphic card problem? Only thing I can think of, after running all sorts of diagnostics, is Open GL problem. I've tried the different figure display modes and have the same problem...nothing shows up in the window. I'm quite desperate; any suggestions are very welcome!

Poser 4 or 5? Did you recently update OpenGL? (The latest update's a bit wonky, but if you haven't changed it, I doubt it would just start causing a problem now. If it's Poser 5, I'd recommend updating to SR-4 if you haven't already... besides that, I can't think of any reason that it would just decide to start getting silly one day. What about system RAM? Is anything else (such as Mackafee or Norton) chewing up local memory?

Have you tried with a different figure?

Poser 4.03; didn't change a single thing on the machine between Friday (Poser was working fine) and Saturday. My machine is offline and doesn't have any Norton or stuff like that using memory; watching the system info window with memory usage, that doesn't appear to be the problem.

Don't know if this help but try to delete the .rsr for the figure in your Runtime/Geometries/... The folder the obj is in.

Thanks, thewishmaster, I've done that before, but this isn't specific with one or two figures; it's any figures I put in the working window. They're there, I can run my mouse around the window and the mesh will highlight, but it's blank. I understand that Poser doesn't use OpenGL after spending considerable time searching and reading in the forum, so I'm at a loss!

Have you installed the Memory Patch from CL? This is a known issue. Also read up about Virtual Memory limitations with 4.03

Okay well I can't help you on that one...But every time poser get's funny on me I just make a re-install with-out deleting the runtime Libraries That all-ways help me...Sorry I can't help you better :(

kuroyume0161, I've had Poser 4.03 on this machine for several years, that's why I'm more than a little frustrated! HAven't added memory, so can't think why it's wonky all of a sudden. wishmaster, thanks much for trying, I appreciate it!!

Have you tried deleting the file Poser UI Prefs_(Rez you work at).xml from your runtimeprefs folder then recreating your preferred setting in poser ? If that doesn't work also delete the file preferredState.pz3 from the same folder. Hope this helps.

Thanks, Shadowdancer, I will try those. I just finished a day of diagnostics, didn't find anything on my hardware, so I'm getting ready to take the cover off the machine and listen to it while it boots up. This worked for me a few years back with a failing disk, I was able to hear what was going on. I'll let you know what does-or-doesn't happen, lol

Did you install any new software? Yesterday I put on the Vue Pro 4 demo which changed my Open GL settings, and Poser did not like that at all. Every time I fired it up it'd blink at me, hiccup and crash. Wound up having to remove the demo to get Poser back again, I swear it must've taken a hissy fit out of jealousy 'cuz I was drooling over Vue and went on strike.

Hmmm...as a matter of fact, I'm beta testing some software, and installed a beta upgrade yesterday morning...I'll have to check that right away. Thanks for the idea, Byrdie...I use both Vue 4 d'Esprit and Vue 4 Pro, love em! Shadowdancer, I tried your advice, but that didn't solve the problem. Think I'm gonna eat dinner and come back to it...this is frustrating!! Thanks very much to everyone who is trying to help me, I really appreciate all the help!

If all else fails I believe you can just reinstall Poser back over the original installation and keep the runtime intact. You might want to do a forum search on that but I'm fairly certain it won't harm the existing runtime. Disclaimer "I believe" and "I'm fairly certain" means I would do this AFTER I was positive it wouldn't harm the existing runtime. But I'm pretty sure it won't do any damage. ;)

Hi Ben...tried that already, and didn't help. I deleted geometry rsr files, got rid of the environment things suggested above, I'm at a loss. I guess the question is, hardware-wise, what affects the display and rendering engine? Is it graphics card dependent at all? Tomorrow I'll probably pick up another graphics card and see if that's the culprit. My memory checks out ok...I'm mystified! Other applications seem to be doing ok. I uninstalled the software I was testing, which was on another drive, but that hasn't done the trick so far.

Just a thought, but are you running Pro Pack. I ask because (in my experience) a lot of Python Scripts have their own "semi-freeze peculiarities" and I've reproduced the problem you describe on many occasions whilst running Python. Might the software you've been testing have interfered with Poser's Python functioning?

Nope, it's not Pro Pack, it's regular old 4.03. The deinstall didn't seem to help; I'm going to reload the graphics card drivers, see if that helps, and do some more thinking! Thanks!

I went to Curious Labs and did some reading: kuroyume0161 was right. I had tweaked some virtual memory settings on another disk, but apparently Windows and Poser reads them all together. I downloaded and installed the memory update, and it's fine! whew Thanks so much to everyone who tried to give me ideas on what to do, you're lifesavers!