I upgraded and bought a new machine with 6 gig ram and a 640 gig hard drive and it came with Vista 64 bit. I tried taking my Poser runtime. I am currently using Poser6. I tried copying my old Runtime to a external drive and transporting it to the new machine, but things went funky, things went missing, like textures and thumbnail images. So I determined I was going to have to this from scratch and download just about all the content from sites back onto the new machine and reload everything. But when I check the folder the Poser program is in, because I want to group things up and not have thousands of folders scattered all over the place, Hair items in the Hair folder etc, I can't find anything I've opened and installed in Poser. But they're showing up in Poser when I go and check it. So if I unload Milly hair for instance, to the Poser directory, and then check the Poser folder it is not there, but in Poser it's there. It's driving me crazy.

I would really like to just use Poser on the new machine and use a external drive to house the clothes and textures and stuff but I don't know how to get Poser to look to that drive for what it needs without it popping up saying it can't find this or that and I have to direct it.

By organizing the Poser runtime cuts back on a lot of things, navigating in the program the length of time it takes top open the main menu and so on. Plus if I'm looking for Hair or V3 clothes or V4 shoes, I would have it all there and I can go directly to it as to spending an hour looking for a pair of shoes. On the old computer that is how I had my folders set up, but on the new machine I can't even find the folders to do that with. I don't know where they're going but they're in the Poser program when I have it opened.  Strange.

And I don't think Poser likes Vista that much, I've been having some weird messages, like Python scrips didn't load properly, or I'll go to render a single figure, with just hair and skin textures to see how fast it is, test stuff. And it is telling me that I don't have enough memory to lower the bucket sizes. Or says it can't load the textures and then the working window goes black. It rendered on the second time but I noticed it made the eyelashes solid black. Alias again and I will see half of the previous rendered image and the figure I'm going to render and that's when it will pop up with that can't find textures nonsense.

Am I looking to have to upgrade to Poser Pro or something? Is Poser6 and Vista going to get along ever?  I've spent the last week [between work] just about trying to get Poser on the new machine to the point that I can start doing something serious with it.