Silke opened this issue on Apr 01, 2005 ยท 7 posts
Silke posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 9:52 AM
(Cross posting on PPro as well) Hi all. I got my P6 box and naturally went and installed and had a blast. Not a single problem (ok, it ran out of memory once 0.o) So this morning I sit down to render, open P6, load IC2, go to apply a texture and WHAMMO. P6 just closed. I blinked. Then I went to do it again. Same result. In fact, this happened with any figure I loaded. Didn't matter what it was, the moment I tried to load a texture via 'Browse' the whole thing shut down. I played with the opengl settings. It got WORSE. Now I just had to switch rooms and it shut down. So I went on a mission... I turned down Hardware Acceleration. I ended up turning it off completely - P6 worked. Well. Turning it off was simply not an acceptable option. Besides, it had worked on Full the day before so that couldn't have been the problem all of a sudden. I uninstalled Poser and reinstalled. Tried again, same result. I wracked my brain, trying to think of what had changed since last night. Then it hit me. I installed Quicktime 6.5.2 last night to get my webcam to work. I uninstalled it... Opened P6... Acceleration on full, OpenGL on... Guess what...? P6 works with no problem at all. I've sent the trail of the 'Bug' to CL, hopefully they find a way around this or find out what's causing it... but if you have that problem of P6 not letting you do anything and closing all the time... Check if you have Quicktime installed. I don't know if it's just that version, but taking it off is what cured it for me.
Silke
thefixer posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 10:50 AM
I've got the same sort of problems with P6 and I have quicktime. I'm just off to dump it and I'll let ya know!! thefixer poser coordinator
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Cofiwch Dryweryn.
thefixer posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 11:05 AM
Ok Uninstalled Quicktime, ran my usual test render and it creamed it [that's good]. Rendered faster, didn't stopped and now I'm off to do 2 things. 1 Pray to him upstairs that, that was the problem! 2 Play on Poser6. thefixer poser coordinator
Injustice will be avenged.
Cofiwch Dryweryn.
silverthornne posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 1:46 PM
It fixed the problem but there has to be something else. I have QT Pro 6.5.2 and have no issues...
thefixer posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 1:49 PM
Update, didn't work. It's still crap on Firefly!! Just got a reply from CL, see a later post!
Injustice will be avenged.
Cofiwch Dryweryn.
Silke posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 2:33 PM
It's not the rendering I'm talking about. It's the shutdown when you change to another room, or try to do anything.
This isn't about P6 hanging or running slowly, it's about it shutting down - as in closing itself.
I've told CL what's going on here... and just got a reply that they will do some testing - with a sidenote of "it would be a shame if it turned out that we have another situation comparable to Poser 4's incompatibility with QuickTime 6" which I found rather... interesting.
I'm relatively certain that it's not Quicktime alone that is causing it, but rather a combination of hardware/software issues (i.e. I'm on an AMD64)
It could well be that the combination of Intel/Quicktime/P6 runs like clockwork, but if you stick Quicktime on the AMD computer it doesn't because it handles requests differently.
But it's worth a shot if P6 keeps closing itself when you do anything. And BTW this is the free version I'm talking about. The Pro version may yet be different to the free version in the way it handles things.
Message edited on: 04/01/2005 14:36
Silke
TSHamby posted Sat, 02 April 2005 at 9:19 AM
Thanks for the info...I seem to be having the same issues.