This is an on going prob for me and is driving me crazy.. I can be working with my models fine.. but every now and then when I go to move a dile.. this happens! The whole area blanks out and can no longer be clicked. it also will display the last window that was on my screen (for this thats my desktop) I can't close it, and I can't open a new one.. I can only remove it by closing poser and re-opening it.. But it KEEPS happening! I can still move the model by mouse, but I have no access to the diles what so ever. This is really driving me nuts. Having to close and restart poser to continue what I was doing, only for it to happen once again at a random time.. (and it's not all on the same dile either, or same model.. it's totly random!!) Is there ANYWAY to stop this from going on?! I can't even save my work!!

Haven't seen that one B4...Can ya close yr dials, then re-open them? (Window> Parameter Dials) Cool desktop, BTW 8-)

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That looks like you need service pack 4.1, don't forget the figures updater too.

If that doesn't solve it, I'd try reducing or bypassing hardware acceleration for the video card next.

See the row of icons at the bottom left of your Poser window .. the row of spheres? You've got it set so that Poser has to apply the actual texture map to your model in Preview mode. In real time. That's no prob for a top end video card and a 3D program with an efficient approach to displaying stuff, but Poser isn't efficient. If you select the display mode 3 from the right, you'll get nice edges and a clear view of your model, but without the texture showing all the time (except when you render). I bet you get the odd display after posing your character for a while .. Poser and your machine can't keep up, so background stuff gets ignored as it's less vital. Another trick for removing odd display errors is to minimise Poser, open a non-memory-intensive prog like Wordpad, close it, then maximise Poser again. Doesn't always work, but worth trying. And save your work often! Good luck.

Oh, couple of other things. Try not to have so many progs running in the background. And if you haven't got one, go get a RAM cleaner. I use RamIdle, but there are several other excellent free apps around. They clear any unused Ram as you're working.

I have a top notch video card and enough ram to run it with no prob. Beside's it STILL does this even if I have nothing else open. I just tried again, after just turning my computer on, no other programs open, and it STILL did this. and I can't close the dile window. Some times if I click the figure it'll try and open another.. like it can't tell if the first is closed or not.. apparently.. my guess is that is is to have closed but.. didn't.. for some reason.. This is just getting very VERY annoying for me x.x

There was a thread a few months ago explaining how to remove the Mac QuickTime legacy files from your Poser installation. Now, that may not sound relevant .. but it might be. Most of us who tried it found dramatically improved response/display times for the libraries. You didn't say if you had the latest patch, as suggested by gmadone. The other thing that occurs to me .. how fast do you work? If you're spinning dials like crazy, in full texture display mode, P5 simply won't be able to cope, no matter how good your hardware is. Final suggestion .. pop over to the Poser Technical forum. Some smart and very tenacious peeps hang out there.