Whenever a render is about to complete, Poser will stop responding.  I have no choice other than to close the program and reopen it for a second attempt.  This also happens when I hit the cancel button.  I've tried to run it in a separate process, but that doesn't effect the outcome.  This doesn't happen at random, but almost every attempt to render a scene or character.

On that note, it doesn't matter how much content is in the scene.  I tried to render a simple M4 character without any hair or clothes, and it stopped responding at least a dozen times in a row.  That's not an exaggeration.   In fact, the only random aspect of this issue is the actual success of a rendering process.  Curiously, whether I'm doing a test render of a final render makes a difference.

When I do test renders, the program stops responding almost every single time.  Yet when I beef up the settings to something I'd use in a final render, it'll actually render to completion a few times before it finally stops again.  This whole issue is more of a recent development as well.  It didn't happen during the free trial of the program (which I acquired late last year), but started up about two months ago.

Aside from rendering in a separate process, I've also reinstalled Poser and performed a factory reset on my computer.  I've tweaked the settings I use to render, and I've even created a new runtime with only a few pieces of content to try rendering.  I've pretty much exhausted every possible solution I could think of, and nothing has made any difference so far.

Just in case it helps to resolve this issue, I have an Alienware Aurora with the Vista 64-bit OS and 6 GB of RAM.  If anyone has an idea I can try, I'd greatly appreciate it.

PS: I apologize in advance if this problem has been posted on the forums already.  I tried a search, but nothing came up.