Is this a known problem for other users too?

I'm on Windows 7 with PP2012 (both 64bit) with all administrator rights, I have only one runtime that is in the main app folder.

Since installing SR1 I've discovered that the TEMP folder is not emptied after closing PP2012. This happens when I've rendered a scene and close the app afterwards. If I close the program without rendering it empties the TEMP folder. Is there a way to change this in the Poser.ini file located in the Roaming folder?

 

Under "General preferences/misc" you can define your own temp folder.

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And how is that answering my question?

The temp folder is already defined by Poser by default into the correct path. Changing that does not change the described behaviour: why is it not emptied after rendering and closing the app as it was before. This happens only since I've intalled SR1.

It depend of your setttings ...

 

Under "General preferences/Render" you have an option "Texture caching" "Persistent size"

 

You define the size of the texture caching size ... Persistent = Persistent ... Nothing to say more ... Read the manual ...

 

The default poser path is not the better path ...

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This has nothing to do with the texture caching and I know how to define the texture caching size but I haven't change anything in that and I don't want to change any settings. Is my questionsomehow lost in translation?

I want that the TEMP folder is emptied after closing Poser as it was before since I'm using Poser (the settings in my old Poser Pro 2010 installation are the same and it still empties the TEMP folder after closing the app.). It's unnerving to manually delete it every time. Changing the the TEMP path is not changing the behaviour.

Please answer only if you have experienced the same behaviour after installing SR1.

There is a difference in the Poser.ini files for PP2010 and PP2012 (after SR1):

PP2010 has the line KEEP_TEXTURES_LOADED 0

PP2012 SR1 has the line KEEP_OGL_TEXTURES_LOADED 1

Maybe this has something to do with it?

Poser keeps the textures in cache as long as possible to speed up switching from Renderview to Preview mode (or changing scene display mode) which took a long time before SR1.

Apparently the cache is not cleared when you quit Poser.

I don't think this is a big problem however since the texture chache is re-used when you load a different scene

If you do find it a problem I suggest you file a bug report to SM

 

Is this a bug or intentional done this way?

It's true that switching in PP2012 from Rendering to Preview is now much faster with SR1 but the switching was not a problem in the old PP2010.  And because of that I'm wondering if I can change that with a correction in the Poser.ini file? With my 200 GB HD it's a bit of a problem because the TEMP files are often about 7 to 10 GB sized.

In P9 and PP2012 HW Shading has improved dramatically and has been turned on by default. In the original released version it had as a side effect that after a render all textures had to be reloaded and recalculated. To speed this up in SR1 they used the (render) texture cache.

If you turn it off in the ini file (KEEP_OGL_TEXTURES_LOADED 1), I think it will go the original way (not using the cache for HW Shading) and will be slow again when changing modes. But to get back the speed of PP2010 you can turn Off HW shading in the render settings for the Preview mode. In PP2010 it was default Off

It is a simple experiment - edit the poser.ini when Poser is closed. Then restart Poser. If Poser is still open when you edit the ini file, the ini file will be overwritten when it is closed

 

I will try that (turning off HW shading) and editing the Poser.ini file. Thank your for that! :-)