Am I the only one who has to wait almost 3 minutes for Poser to load up? (2 minutes 54 seconds according to my stopwatch) Kate (who can just see herself covered with cobwebs by the time poser loads up since she installed the pro pack)

Yup, the only one. :) -SMT

Well durn. :) 400 Mhz with 256M RAM should be plenty fast enough, if you ask me cuz I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to spend even MORE money replacing things that AREN'T BROKEN. Sheesh.

Hiya Kate. I just got PPP and I haven't noticed the boot-up time being any slower than regular ol' P4. The time it takes to load figures does take longer (but thats a good thing -- no .rsr's, woohoo!). Are you launching to te default factory document (P2 casual dude) or to your own 'preffered state' settings (maybe it's loading a higher-res character on start up?).

Well it launches fine on my PIII 600 anyway. I tried running it on my Vic 20 and it's still not past the opening credits.

26 seconds on my PIII 1gHz, BUT I open to a scene with NO figures! -SMT

I tried it on my oldie..400mhz with 384 RAM...takes 15 seconds to load...PPP and no figure loading initially. Something isn't right, Kate. You're times should be simular to this. Do you have alot of other things running would be my first question?

You will find that figures load slower in the PPP. That's because it no longer uses the RSR and reads the OBJ file directly. On a PC, the OBJ is just plain text. Poser4 and the PPP load up slowly on my machine. I have that problem with anything that accesses QuickTime. -JH.

Just for laughs, I loaded Poser and the Pro Pack on an old 200Mz Pentium laptop. The start-up time was 2 minutes, 10 seconds with no initial figure. The kicker here is that I had some DRAM problems with the PC some time ago so it has been stripped down to only the memory that's on the motherboard. That amounts to a whopping 8MBs! I think you've got some problems there Kate.

I get 20 seconds on my tbird 1gig and 512m of ram using win2k. For a while it was taking almost 3minutes then I found out the reason was that I had pulled a poser file off on of my networked computers to use on my tbird. The machines where linked by apipa and everytime I opened poser on my tbird it would go back to the network drive and try to find the old file. I resolved the problem by turning off both pc's then booting the tbird and using poser without the network running. I then powered on the other pc and poser has been happy ever since. Mike

Hmm...so I should disconnect my cable? That's the only network I've got going. You think that might be what's slowing things down?

No you're network connection to your cablemodem shouldn't be causing this problem. I would start with some basic system diagnostics. Run scandisk and the defrag your HD maybe.

Well, I give up. I've done the scan disk, defragged twice in the past two days, shut down everything except explorer and systray and it still takes from 3 to 4 minutes to open the program. I guess this is just something I'll have to learn to live with, because I can't think of anything else to try and so far nothing has any effect on this. Oh well, some programs are like that, I suppose. :| Kate