I've been working on a large scale animated short for the last three weeks and things have been going well - until tonight.  Poser Pro 2012 has suddenly gone south and I can't figure out how to solve the problem.

I've been animating a chase in space using the Y2K from 2Mylent and the IanMPalmer Mosquito - two very nice models.  No problems for three weeks.  I've animated over two dozen scenes and Poser Pro 2012 has performed flawlessly.  Tonight I opened a project file.  I could manipulate everything in the scene, the cameras, the lights, the Mosquito, but if I tried anything with the Y2k I got the spinning orb and then the white screen of death.  After a least a dozen tries, shutting everything down (computer and Poser) and firing it back up again, starting a new project, loading the Y2k into a new runtime - always the same result.  Only the Y2K would lock things up, everything else still worked fine.

I reinstalled poser pro 2012 just before I started this project and updated it with SR2.1 and it's been working perfectly.  I know the Y2K is a large file with lots of detail, but I'm running a very fast i7 computer with 24 gigs of ram and it hasn't had a problem until tonight.  Could the file have somehow been corrupted?  I find that hard to beleive since I created a new runtime and it still has the same problem.  Should I remove all traces of the current Y2K in my runtimes, download the file again from Renderosity and reinstall it into the runtime?  I hate to do this as it will probably destroy all the current files I have spent the last three weeks working on, and I am still tweaking the animation for many of them. 

I'm on a tight deadline and can't believe this has suddenly reared its ugly head.  Any help would be most appreciated.

I just downloaded the file from Renderosity, installed it in a new runtime and it still freezes up the moment I try to do anything with the M2K.  I've gone into other project files that I have worked on and changed up until yesterday and all objects, cameras and lights work fine, but if i touch the M2K, I get the spinning orb.  I let it rotate for about a half an hour, then clicked on the screen - white death. 

I loaded in the Mosquito by itself.  It works perfectly.  Loaded other airplanes and space vehicles.  Everything works fine.  So the problem is with the M2k file and I don't know why as it worked great until today.  It looks like something within Poser pro 2012 has been corrupted and this file will simply not work anymore.  I suppose I'll have to reinstall Poser Pro 2012 once again and see if that fixes the problem.  I never had issues like this with my old Poser 7.  I must say, the additional features in PP2012 don't seem worth the constant struggle to get work done.  It's ending up costing me both money and clients due to this unpredictable behavior.

The symptoms certain suggest something with OpenGl.
Have you tried setting your display mode to Sreed?
Sometimes mystery problems are solved by deleting "poser.ini" and letting it generate a new one
Sometime when I have what might be a texture problem, I temporarily rename the texture folder and set search depth to none.
When it asks if I want to look, I say no and it will load without textures.  Then I can add them singly

just guessing but one never knows: just from my own very recent series of unexpected White Death experiences (and your systeem looks like mine, and so does your use of it):

Do you have a Crucial-4M SSD installed? Has it made about 5184 duty hours? Then it will generate WSoD's every 55 mins until you feed it the latest (000F) driver. It;'s not Poser at all.

When on Win7, get the Win7 installer from their website, unpack it onto your Desktop (and nowhere else!), read the guide, run the firmware updater, and you'll be fine. When not on Win7 get the stuff for the driver-update-CD, burn the iso onto it (on CD R only, no DVD, no rewritables!), run the stuff and you'll be fine.  At least I am now.

best luck

Have you tried loading and manipulating it with HW Shading off? Does the problem happen when you switch to SReeD?

Another thing which you should always do when things like these happen is to reboot the machine - this will also reset the hardware (videocard)

Something must have changed since it did work previously. Big problem is always to find what has changed. Deleting poser.ini resets everything in Poser to default state and this will help if the preferences have somehow corrupted.

Other possible causes are

 - a Windows Update which installed another video driver

 - a new texture/node setup which causes the problem (but you said you already tried the original model with its original textures)

 - Did you turn on multpi-threaded bending? (deleting poser.ini should have turned it off again)

Of course there is always the off chance that you have a hardware failure, but I don't think that is the case.

Quote - The symptoms certain suggest something with OpenGl.
Have you tried setting your display mode to Sreed?
Sometimes mystery problems are solved by deleting "poser.ini" and letting it generate a new one
Sometime when I have what might be a texture problem, I temporarily rename the texture folder and set search depth to none.
When it asks if I want to look, I say no and it will load without textures.  Then I can add them singly

Yeah, I've certainly got the white screen of Poser anguish from textures that the search refuses to find, even if it found them perfectly well a week before. It's a complete mystery to me.

 But with the machine the OP has, I'd be surprised if a search went on for 30 minutes without prompting him to input texture location.

Still, turning off search might be a worthwhile experiment.

Thanks everyone.  I finally just reinstalled Poser and everything is working fine - for the time being.  I have yet to installSR2.1.  I'm still not sure it works or just messes things up.  Maybe I'll just have to suffer waiting for the preview to come back up after viewing a render.

I don't have an SSD drive, so that wasn't the problem.  Forgive my ignorance - I'm an editor,  not a computer guru - but how do I remove Poser .int?

Quote - .....Forgive my ignorance - I'm an editor,  not a computer guru - but how do I remove Poser .int?

Location varies depending on your OS and how you installed Poser.

Just use windows search to find "poser.ini"

try %AppData%RoamingPoser Pro9 in your windows explorer.

since AppData is a hidden folder, searches might not bring it up.