Working on a pic, nothing too expansive. V3 and M3, clothes, textures... Then I add in a background setting, a full prop, not a background. A city scene (Daz''s Walled City) At first, no problem at all and everything works smoothly. But then I revert back to before I put in teh city, try a couple other settings, but decide on using the city after all and reload it. That's when the problems begin and Poser Pro slows to a crawl. Just selecting a dial or trying to pull down a menu takes several minutes before responding. I've had this happen with some other props too. I even shut poser down all together and restarted it, but still the problem remains.
It's not like I'm running a slow computer. An athlon X2 6000 with 3 gig of ram.
Any one have any ideas?
Would this have anything to do with my crappy ATI X1300 video card? I hope so as I plan to get a new one at Christmas.

The same thing happened to me occasionally in P7.  I never figured it out; re-installed
a couple of times, and it stopped. 

Does this still happen if you reboot the computer? Sometimes a reload of Poser is not enough....a complete shutdown is necessary.
That's all I can think of.

Quote - Does this still happen if you reboot the computer? Sometimes a reload of Poser is not enough....a complete shutdown is necessary.
That's all I can think of.

That's a  bit disturbing. Restarting your computer before loading each prop...

Yes it still happens if you reboot. 

I need to reinstall a few times like ockham said, but I'm a little lazy and don't want to go through the hassle of reloading everything on to my PC.

I'm using Poser Pro and have not had this sort of experience that wasn't resolved by restarting Poser or Windoz....
What happens if you load a previous project after a clean start of the computer and Poser....same problem?

How about logout completely and login again?

If I get this I save what I'm doing and restart the pooter. That usually sorts it out.

How many levels of undo do you have it set for and how often do you clear the undo cache?  Once you do a save on a scene, go into the prefs and clear the undo cache.  Sometimes P7 and Pro get bogged down when the undo cache gets too big.

What's the max number of undos you can have without poser getting bogged down?

If you're running Vista, here's a possible cause for P7 / PPro to act really slowly:

check what your default printer is set as. If it's a networked printer or a USB printer, it seems that some, but not all applications take their time polling the system to find that printer. Poser is one that does.

I found a simple fix: I set my default printer to the Adobe PDF writer ( not a real printer). I guess any PDF writer or a similar, software 'printer' would do.

Try it... it might work for you too.

I have a network printer, but I have the MS XPS document writer as the default.