Jomish opened this issue on Mar 20, 2013 · 11 posts
Jomish posted Wed, 20 March 2013 at 8:38 PM
I recently got around to updating my Poser Pro 2012 application (finally) and I've run into some very serious problems. The main issue is that the program itself has slowed down to the point where it's practically inoperable. I've dabbled with this program for a while now and have never had to deal with a slow interface until I elected to upgrade. The library was similarly slowed but I fixed that by updating my AIR flash player and that seems to have done the trick. Is there something else I need to update in order to get my Poser back into working condition?
If it helps, my specs are:
Mac OSX 10.7.5
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB Memory
If anyone has a solution to my woes I'd be incredibly grateful...
LaurieA posted Thu, 21 March 2013 at 3:36 AM
Try closing Poser, find the Poser.ini file (should be in your My Documents folder somewhere...where the content gets installed) and delete that. Then restart Poser. When you restart Poser it should build a new one.
Laurie
hborre posted Thu, 21 March 2013 at 10:55 AM Online Now!
The only pitfall with deleting the Pose.ini, you will need to re-establish all your external runtimes.
Miss Nancy posted Thu, 21 March 2013 at 11:46 AM
other pitfall: OP don't have poser.ini. OP's got OS X. it didn't slow down when I updated to sr 3.1 (OS X), however I noticed all default lites had AO enabled, which sux. if OS X interface is slow, one can only suggest using OS X activity monitor to check for bad processes using up network and CPU. make sure firewall is enabled in system prefs/security. monitor and block bad network connexion attempts. check poser prefs for any connection issues, FFRender in separate process, et al.
these are all issues which SM personnel are allowed to assist users. however they aren't supposed to discuss technique, like how to use material room nodes or how to create art, etc.
WandW posted Thu, 21 March 2013 at 12:35 PM
Quote - I noticed all default lites had AO enabled, which sux.
I hadn't noticed that; no wonder my renders with the default lites looked better!
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Jomish posted Thu, 21 March 2013 at 7:35 PM
Hmmm. Miss Nancy, If you have a mac and are not experiencing these problems then I have to assume it's a problem with the mac itself. I'll do some diagnostics but I think it's important to note that my poser program was running relatively smoothly before I updated. I really just want to get to the bottom of this so I can start working again!
LaurieA posted Fri, 22 March 2013 at 5:59 AM
Whoops! Sorry...I missed the Mac part. It was early in the morning and I didn't have any coffee in me yet, what can I say....lol. I hope you find the problem.
markschum posted Fri, 22 March 2013 at 8:10 AM
Just a thought but have you checked for how many threads Poser will use ? If that got reset to 1 it might have an impact.
Jomish posted Sat, 23 March 2013 at 6:57 PM
@Laurie
lol no problemo I still appreciate the inpute
@Markschum
How would I go about checking that? Sorry noob question :P
LaurieA posted Sat, 23 March 2013 at 8:41 PM
Quote - @Laurie
lol no problemo I still appreciate the inpute
@Markschum
How would I go about checking that? Sorry noob question :P
It's in your Poser preferences in Edit/General Preferences - Render tab - Number of Threads. Most ppl put however many cores their cpu has but I usually put one less (I have a quad). Personal preference ;). Normally I'm doing other stuff so I don't like to give Poser everything...heh.
Laurie
Jomish posted Fri, 29 March 2013 at 6:04 PM
If anyone is interested I managed to fix the issue! It turns out when I started the search function on my library my computer began "indexing" itself with a program called spotlight which slows EVERYTHING to a crawl. I've disabled spotlight and everything is amazing :)