Got a problem with P4 that i haven't been able to sort. Suddenly, when i start it up, only the top left quarter of the work window is it's usual blegh brown colour. The other three quarters is white. Trying to render (even with only the default P4 figure in it) results in the 'out of memory' message.

I've played with the virtual memory, even jacking it up to silly numbers, but Nada. Reinstalling Poser... zilch. Even reinstalling Windows did nothing.

Has anyone got any ideas cos i'm starting to suffer poser withdrawal?

Jack

if ya can tell 'em more about yer machine, e.g. processor, RAM, graphics card, OS, then one of the experts may be able to help. my guess is an incompatible graphics card driver, unless P4 is trying to start up with a bad pz3 file.

Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/pagedefrag.mspx

Have you changed anything recently? Installed more memory, changed hardware, that sort of thing? Poser is sensitive to issues with memory and virtual memory, P4 (it seems) especially so. My installation motored along fine for ages then suddenly started giving out of memory errors on rendering. Assuming you're using an Windows NT-based operating system (2000 or XP) the first thing you might try is defragmenting your system files, in particular the paging file, using pagedefrag from the link.

Morning all and thanks for the replies.

I'm running an AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1.67 GHz with 1 Gig RAM. The OS is XP pro. The Graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 5500. Never had any trouble with this set up before and there have been no hardware changes. I've uninstalled a couple of old games that may have caused a problem, especially one called 'Fighting Steel' which used a thing called 'Indeo' (i think... something like that). But even then, i've played that game before with no problems to Poser.

I've changed the Pz3 and used everything from the basic poser figures to the M3 figure as the startup, all with the same result. Ah, that's a point. I didn't mention that the figure is actually invisible on the screen. You only know it is there when you run the mouse over it and the body part is highlighted. The body parts can be grabbed and moved too. But when it comes to rendering the processor is running at 100% but either the 'out of memory' message appears or the prog just stops responding.

According to Windows, the drive Poser is on does not need defraging but I ran the pagedefrag util and that didn't change anything either i'm afraid.

Jack

The invisible figure problem sounds like the old "too much memory" thing. The 4.03 update was supposed to fix that - you do have that installed?

Ummm... Not sure, but where would i find it?

bad reference line in pz3 file will also cause spurious p4 memory warning. check yer version of P4, as it's likely gonna say 4.03.xxxx already. mine was 4.02.118 (mac OS 9). the spurious memory issue never bothered me. I got the update from larry's ghosteffects.com site, which is now called http://www.larryweinberg.com/gallery2/main.php

Version no is 4.0.3.127

don't bother updating. start up poser app to empty scene (no pz3 file).

I've had that same problem but with poser Pro. closing everything down and rebooting my computer fixes it for a new session. But it does it again if I use P7 first. Some programs have that effect on it. I have WinXP on an EMachine with 1.5 GHZ and 1GB RAM.

Hi again, sorry i've not had time to reply, RL getting in the way again.

I loaded with an empty scene and, although it still hung up again, at least it got further along before doing so. There is still the problem of only opening with three quarters of the workspace whited out... any ideas why?

Jack