On the desktop what is the difference between the Poser Pro 2010 (x86) icon & the Poser Pro 2010 icon?

There doesn't seem to be anything in the manual about this, nor can I find anything when searching the forum.

Thanks

x86 = 32bit

the other one is 64bit.

you can choose which you use (I'd use the 64bit myself..)

The x86 icon is the 32 bit version. The other is the 64 bit.

ROFL - Magnus... you and I were both on top of this!

BTW... I liked your old tagline better. It had a ring of true pragmatism about it!

Ahh so I only have 32 bit so maybe that was why it kept locking up with the Poser Pro 2010 every time I used the conform to command.

I tried using the other icon & it didn't lock up with that one, not sure if it was coincidence or that was the problem LOL.

Well scrap that idea it locked up again. Well this is going to be fun if I cannot conform clothing to a figure! :unsure:

If you only have a 32-bit system, Anniebel, I'd uninstall and reinstall only the 32-bit version. (I have a 64-bit system and didn't install the 32-bit files and it works fine).

Thanks Victoria_Lee I tried that with no success, and it was hanging on delete as well. I changed from Open GL to SreeD & that seems to have fixed it, cross fingers.

Smith Micro poser versions just don't seem to like my system, I had problems with Poser 8 too & it took a hell of a lot of tweaking to get it stable.

OpenGL depends on your video card, Anniebel ... I had lots of problems with that until I got the new one.  Have you tried updating the drivers for your video card?

Everything on this system updates automatically, & the video card drivers updated a couple of weeks ago, so I don't see why that would be the problem.

I just checked manually & I do have the most up todate driver.

For video drivers. It's best to DL them yourself. nVidia cards from nVida. ATI cards, not sure, AMD now? At least straight from the cartd manufacture.

Then uninstall the old driver and install the new. This seems to clear many driver problems.

I have a 64 bit system, but a 32 bit OS.  Which one should I be using?    Both of them run.  I've detected no difference in performance.

32 bit as in 32 bit os. Since you don't have a 64 bit os you cannot take advantage of the unlimited ram use and any of the 64 bit advantages. Even if the 64 bit is working on your 32 bit os it can't use the 64 bit options and advantages. The 32 bit os does not allow this.

If you had problems with P8, you will have it with Pro 2010 as well..... after all it's the same core engine.

As for video drivers, I reverted back to older ones on ATI. My ATI cards isn't the newest one, it's one of the 4300 series. Whenever I upgrade to the newest ones, Poser 8 starts acting up. In the end, I did go back to the drivers that I knew worked for certain. Haven't had problems ever since.

I finally learned.... if it's not broken, don't upgrade. A lot of the drivers on my system are considered outdated, so what? The system works vert fast and smooth and all software runs great. As long as it does, I'm not even going to touch the systems drivers at all, why would I?

The problems I had with P8 were slightly different. However PP2010 is runing fine using SreeD & I don't see a lot of difference between that & openGL in this version of
Poser, so as it is currently running ok, I am not changing anything.

Quote - As for video drivers, I reverted back to older ones on ATI. My ATI cards isn't the newest one, it's one of the 4300 series.

For Poser 7 and the first Poser Pro there were these recommendations in the ReadMe file, to change a line in the Poser.ini

Added preference for controlling hardware shading during tracking, please change PREVIEW_OGL_HWSHADING_INTRACKING 1 to PREVIEW_OGL_HWSHADING_INTRACKING 0
to prevent lag in camera adjustment on certain NVIDIA chipsets; NVIDIA OpenGL Hardware shading only.

Windows owners with certain ATI graphics cards may notice that Poser takes a long
time to highlight the body part or prop that is moused over (due to the long delay it may appear that items are not highlighting at all.) This complicates the job of selecting parts to pose; the situation can be greatly improved by editing the Poser.ini file to set the PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING entry to 1 (from the default zero.)