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Subject: Is it possible for the Poser folder to get too big...


shawnvb ( ) posted Mon, 02 April 2001 at 11:51 AM · edited Sun, 28 July 2024 at 5:09 AM

The past few days I have noticed Poser has slowed down a lot. Is it possible that I just have too much stuff installed?


JKeller ( ) posted Mon, 02 April 2001 at 12:48 PM

The number of figures/props/textures you have installed really doesn't make any difference. What matters is what you have loaded in your scene. Hi-rez figures such as Mike and Vicky, high rez props, high rez textures or having multiple figures loaded can take it's toll. Poser can also be slowed down if you have a lot of other programs running and/or a resource hogging app (any Microsoft product). If you haven't defragged your HD recently, that can also slow Poser down.

Hope this helps.


bloodsong ( ) posted Mon, 02 April 2001 at 4:10 PM

heyas; if you have a lot of items in any poser library (characters:people, or props:prop types, for example), poser has to read all the files every time you open that folder. it is especially annoying when you fill up your default folder with stuff. i moved all my human characters to a 'human' directory, and the 'people' directory is empty. then, when i open the figure library, i can access it right away.


shawnvb ( ) posted Mon, 02 April 2001 at 4:46 PM

Thanks for the responses. I think i will have to drfrag my hard drive anyway. I'm been doing a lot of installing and deleting lately. I think I will do some cleaning in my libraries too. I have so much stuff and I don't really use it all. I keep thinking that I will become inspired if I have things installed but so far all it's doing is taking space.


bloodsong ( ) posted Tue, 03 April 2001 at 10:21 AM

heyas; then there's always when you get to the point (in windoze, anyhow) where it pops up and says 'you are running out of space on drive h....' then you KNOW you're in trouble! ;D


MikeJ ( ) posted Thu, 05 April 2001 at 5:11 PM

TELL me about it! I have just slightly under 4.5 GB's of Poser nonsense on my D drive, right? So, one of my first Rhino models was this enormous (file-wise) hair object I made, well before I learned how to keep polygons under control in Rhino. I wasn't really paying much attention, and suddenly I discover I'm down to only 56 MB on my D drive. I determined it ws my Poser .cr2's-- the ones with that particular hair prop on it were around sixty megabytes each! I regained over 800 MB's just resaving those CR2's without the hair-- after all, I only need one copy of the hair prop itself. After all that, I began looking for other excesses in my Poser folder, and found alot. My advice would be, instead of going on a mass deletion spree, first look for redundancies within your files.



love2all ( ) posted Tue, 10 April 2001 at 1:04 AM

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