lwperkins opened this issue on Feb 12, 2007 · 10 posts
lwperkins posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 8:20 PM
Is anyone else having this problem? I had a clean install of Poser 7 (full) on a brand new pc running WindowsXP, and I can load figures fine, it's just after moving the figure around for about 7 or so moves (lift arm, rotate head, move leg, adjust fingers)..whoops, the image is frozen. If I shift the view to two panes, the same thing goes on--the second pane will work for a bit, then freeze too. The outer UI still works fine. I thought maybe this was a preference problem, because I read on the e-fronteir site that strange behavior is caused by corrupted preferences, and the problems showed up after I switched to "Launch to previous state". Things didn't clear up when I switched back to "Launch to factory state", nor did turning the number of undos from 100 to 6 help (I thought maybe the cache was filling sucking up the memory (I have 1024 meg of RAM, so I hoped not). I wrote to e-frontier but I have not heard back from them, and it's been a week. I looked in my Prefs folder and it has the following contents: two folders with English and Sketch Prefs. Is that what should be in there? I'm about ready to reinstall it, though I hate to since it's such a long install.
thx, Lynn
svdl posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 8:52 PM
It could be OpenGL settings. Updating to the latest graphics card drivers might help.
If that doesn't work, you might try switching to SreeD, or turn down the OpenGL quality options.
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pjz99 posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 8:56 PM
Does this happen with every figure?
Does this happen with untextured view?
Does this happen with wireframe view?
lwperkins posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 8:59 PM
The open gl settings hadn't occured to me at all--I'll have to give that a try tomorrow. I would think the drivers would be up to date since it's a brand-new setup, but I'm no expert. Thanks for the tip--at least I can give it a try and even if it doesn't work that is another thing to check off. I appreciate your help!
--Lynn
lwperkins posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 9:02 PM
pjz99: Yes, it does it with Miki, Sydney and Simon, and in wireframe, smooth shaded, hidden line--I was looking for workarounds. No dice:-(
pjz99 posted Mon, 12 February 2007 at 10:22 PM
It's probably better to try installing freshly downloaded video drivers - what is installed on a "brand new" PC could have been configured packaged many months ago.
lwperkins posted Tue, 13 February 2007 at 5:45 AM
This is true, and it's a lot easier to download new drivers than some of the other fixes;-) Thank you! I'll post a new thread if that fixes it--I can't do it today (too much work) but hopefully this weekend I can tinker with it.
Thew posted Tue, 13 February 2007 at 12:26 PM
I had this exact issue and updating the video drivers was suggested by ef support and did the trick.
lwperkins posted Tue, 13 February 2007 at 1:43 PM
Now I have hope;-) Thanks, Thew!
lwperkins posted Fri, 16 February 2007 at 11:36 AM
Just wanted to let everyone know that downloading the nVidia drivers seems to have fixed the problem (fingers crossed). I'm so grateful for the hints! I certainly would not have thought of it on my own!