I recently purchased a new computer which came with Vista (highly recomend everyone steer well clear of it).  The first speed bump I hit was Poser 5 does not work on Vista.  I purchased and installed Poser 7 however 90% of the time Poser locks when I attempt to render.  Does anyone know if this is a poser problem or Vista problem, and any ideas to correct it?  Thanks.

By the way, I have installed the latest Poser updates from E frontier.

maybe run posr in xp emulation mode?

I have Vista, and I'm running Poser 7 with no problems at all.  I have disabled Vista User Account Controls.  The only problem I have had with Poser 7 is that it takes a long time to delete a character.  I don't know what's causing your problem, but I tend to think it's not Vista.

I got a computer with Vista. Some people are lucky and can run Poser but not everyone has. Vista runs a lot of what's called middleware. That is new monitoring software processes that get between programs, drivers, and the hardware looking for authenticity. As such Vista does a lot of stuff programs were not written to handle and people do run into computability issues. So in a nut shell Poser was not written to run on Vista.

Another thing. The Vista default drivers for various Video cards are limited in OpenGL support and people can highly benefit from getting the manufactures most current drivers if that is possible with your Video card hardware arrangements.

Hopefully enoph of those who do have a lot of experience with tweaking Vista will respond to resolve the issue that your Poser has run into.  Good luck.

As for me I just removed Vista from the computer that it came on. 

"computability"? Hahaha. That should read as "Compatibility".

I can't believe I missed that.    (and with a spell checker...sheesh)

I really like Vista..and had very few problems running Poser on it....until I started doing animations. For some reason no matter what I did I would always get a "out of memory" error when trying to render animations...even when I dropped almost all the settings. I mean I have a 3g RAM dual core system with 500G hard drive...gforce 8800

meanwhile on my old XP system which only has a 1.3Ghz processor, 1g RAM and 250g hard drive and a radeon x700...it could render my animations just fine. 

So unfortunatly I have reverted back to XP for now. I'll wait until Vista releases a Service Pack then try again.

I'm using Vista Ultimate 32 bits and Poser 7 (tried without updates and with SR-1 and SR-2). 

I had the same freezes (render reaches end then blocks half the time, I had to terminate Poser and restart again) until a few days ago when I udpated my NVidia graphic drivers.

Since then not one freeze ! All my renders work perfectly now. /me crosses fingers

I haven't tried animations yet though.

Yours friendly

Lunedust

Thanks for all the great feedback.  Lunedust, sounds like our problems are identical, I'm going to check all my drivers and see how that works.  Thanks again.

I have had a variety of problems with Poser and Vista and they seemed to all clear up when I turned off the OpenGL. My partner is a programmer at MS and got me the copy of Vista and now regrets it. I would encourage anyone to avoid it until version 2. I don't think the problem is Vista - it is that so much of the other things that Vista relies on are not ready for it. Change your render engine away from openGL and you should be fine.

I have run Poser 7 on my new laptop under Vista Home Premium without many problems.  My new laptop came with a crappy intel video chip--since I didn't know anything about Intel's video chips I didn't think much of it until I installed Poser.  After installing Poser I could not get the Open GL to work and I have the most recent driver for the Intel video chip.  I can, however, run Poser under Screen D and it works fine--the preview just isn't as pretty as what I am used to.  It's really funny, my underpowered old laptop handled Poser's open GL fine, but it was running XP.  It also had ATI Radeon Video Chip, unlike this crappy Intel one.   So I'm not sure if it's an Intel chip problem or a Vista problem.  Daz Studio and Cararra display fine.

I was able to render a complex image with IBLs in Poser wihtout problem, it just took a while.

I wish I hadn't upgraded my desktop to Vista, but my OS took a dump and I figured since I had to reinstall everything anyhow I should use the next, upcoming OS.  I just hope Vista doesn't become another Window's ME.