Yesterday evening my electric went out while I was working with poser open. Now today I noticed every time I hit the area render, my task manager shows poser memory going wild, often up to 300,000 megs! The program seems to still work though which is really strange, but it won't render after the initial area render, the area render button stays red, I can't change to other body parts or cameras or lights, and the preview box stays gray or has a sketch like image.

I tried to fix it by cleaning up some things, as windows acts funny sometimes after this sort of thing happens. I first cleaned up all temp files and cleaned out cache files and deleted items. Then I ran defrag and rebooted. It seemed to work fine then it started acting up again. SO I reinstalled my poser, all the updates, and all my runtimes. That didn't seem to fix it either.

Oh and the pc I use for my poser projects is not connected to any internet, it is specifically for poser only, it's never been connected to the internet and I don't use it for anything else so I don't think it can be a spyware or virus issue.

That PC is pentium 4, 1.5GHz, and 512 RAM. I know I need more memory but it hasn't been a problem. The only thing on it is windows 2003, poser 6, and a CD burner to transfer my stuff to my computer on the internet which is at my mom's house down the street :/

The above snapshot is what it looked like after I did everything I could think of to try and fix it. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any suggestions?

Have you tried resetting your poser preferences located under "Edit" and "Preferences"? If not, change it to start in default.  Look under each tab because there is a second tab that has something to do with start up preferences.  Close poser and reopen it.

If that doesn't work, reinstall Poser.  It won't overwrite your poser content that you have installed.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

LOL Acadia to the rescue again! I'm an idiot, it did everything but that :cursing:

Thank you!! Just went home to try that and it seems to be working now. I love your avatar BTW

You're welcome! And thank  you :)

Here is the full version:

I made it at www.meez.com

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Cool, I'll have to check that out later after dinner

Oops! I edited to include the full version of my avatar. It's so cute!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

:woot: That is adorable!!

I give you fair warning that making meezies is highly addicting!  LOL

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Oh sure, NOW I see your warning after I get stuck there for a few hours LOL

You should think about getting a UPS (uninterruptible power supply). They're a little spendy, but if the power goes out you have time to save anything you're working on and shut down your computer. Plus, it's not a good thing to have your power shut off while the drives are spinning.......

Coldrake
 

Thanks for your input coldrake, I have thought about it, very much in fact. It's just money is really tight right now, struggling for mortgage payments etc. I have put some aside here and there so hopefully when my situation picks up I can do that. I don't usually have a problem with the power here, it's only happened maybe twice in the last 4 years.