Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A FIX for my crashing to desktop in P6!

Danava opened this issue on Mar 23, 2005 ยท 20 posts


Danava posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 1:02 AM

OK so after some time with launching poser, switching rooms and crashing to desktop, I finally have my problem narrowed down the the following: Poser apparently HATES my WACOM Graphhire tablet and MS Office's CFTMON.EXE. If I shut down both TABLET.EXE and CTFMON.EXE I am able to run Poser without crashing by switching rooms. Unless I do that, Poser drops me to desktop every time without fail. You others who are having crashing issues please try that and let me know!


maccaroni posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 3:12 AM

in my case it was the nwiz.exe file that lets my p6 crash
i deleted this file and now it runs. i hope it helps.

Message edited on: 03/23/2005 03:16


mathman posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 3:34 AM

Oh poo .... I have a Wacom Graphire, and I'm still waiting for my P6 to arrive in the mail. I'll just have to wait and see, I guess.


hauksdottir posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 5:39 AM

Write techsupport@curiouslabs.com and ask them to look into the tablet issue... or anything where you can narrow it down like this to a specific executable arguing with the program.


FishNose posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 6:12 AM

Hmm... I have Tablet.exe running and Poser6 works fine. ??? In fact I have the tablet, a wireless trackball AND a wireless mouse all running, all work fine with Poser6. I have a total of 46 processes running right now (even with no apps up at all except Browser). And Poser doesn't have a problem with any of them. Including Virus/Firewall and Ad-Aware. I've run Poser6 with 8 other apps running at the same time including Photoshop. No problem. Okay, I didn't try any massive renders, but still. Win2K. :] Fish


yggdrasil posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 7:40 AM

No problem with my Wacom Intuos 3 and Poser 6.

Mark


babydollTX posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 10:29 AM

Intuos 2, I shut down tablet.exe, and sure enough, that was the culprit. Shee-it. That's a serious quality of life issue.


Migal posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 10:53 AM

No big deal. It's not like artists are candidates to use a Wacom or something.


babydollTX posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 11:20 AM

Hey there, handsome. So much for doing postwork on one thing while rendering another. I'm sure they'll have a patch for it. Someday. Maybe.


EricJ posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 11:28 AM

Check for updated Wacom drivers.


babydollTX posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 11:37 AM

They're up to date. (Nov. 11, 2004)


Jackson posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 1:59 PM

It's a big deal to me...I use my Wacom all the time in Poser (and most everything else). I could never go back to a mouse or trackball for two major reasons: 1) They don't afford near enough control and 2) extreme pain in hand after about an hour using mouse or trackball.


TSHamby posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 5:45 PM

I am having a similar issue, whenever I attempt to save a render P6 is crashing to the desktop. I have a Wacom Grapphire as well. Wierdness!


uli_k posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 7:32 PM

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/articleview/18?sbss=435

Danava, TSHamby, maccaroni, babydollTX, please contact Curious Labs tech support through http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/articleview/18?sbss=435 and describe your problems to allow further investigation. Thanks a lot, Uli

Danava posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 7:51 PM

Well, although it WAS true that shutting down tablet.exe was fixing it, I thought before I emailed CuriousGeorgeLabs I would bring my Nvidia drivers up to current so as to avoid them telling me that. Guess what?? 66.93 updated to 71.84 and I no longer have to close down tablet.exe. I feel like a dork for not eliminating that FIRST. I should know better. Anyway, hope that helps someone else. Happy rendering.


uli_k posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 8:11 PM

Thanks Danava for the update. I'm glad to hear the problem is solved for you.


TSHamby posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 8:11 PM

I always contact tech support, but I check these forums as well...hehe. My problem was a faulty install due the McAfee firewall playing havoc with some files...whoops!


babydollTX posted Wed, 23 March 2005 at 8:17 PM

Look ma, I'm rendering - and with my Wacom running, too. So far so good, anyway. ;) Thanks for the heads up on the Nvidia drivers.


Nance posted Thu, 24 March 2005 at 1:12 AM

Thanks also for the nVidia tip. (btw - The screen magnifyer in this version is quicker and easier to get in & out of, so now I can actually use it to read all Poser's teenie-tiny funky fonts on non-contrasting backgrounds.)


hauksdottir posted Thu, 24 March 2005 at 7:53 AM

Funny how it is the little things... like being able to read the fonts, or telling it to quit a search and having it obey (wow!), or compare renders with a flick of a slider.... :) My workbeasts don't have firewalls or anti-spyware or whatever since they are never connected to the Internet. This old WIN98 box does connect... but nothing is networked to it. It has a CD burner. I'd rather hand-carry a disk than leave my system open to whomever next exploits a backdoor. Having an old sacrificial "Internet box" is always an option. That way you can read email and browse the forums while a render is brewing, or be reading a tutorial on one monitor while working on another. Norton used to be wonderful... a real life and hair saver... but something happened a few years back. Norton's disk-scanning tools keep throwing up false messages and don't repair things they said they repaired. After a few go-rounds, I decided that I just can't trust it implicitly anymore. Since so many applications say to turn off Norton or anti-virus when installing them, there must be a reason why they interfere. It might be due to the monitoring process, but then CleanSweep and such utilities would also get in the way. Carolly