Seems more and more often now that Poser just sits there. Doesn't even let me know that it has frozen except for the annoying "ding" that windows has. the only way around it is the hit cntrl+alt+del and end task. Man if I only how much memory or hdd space it likes to have for certain, maybe a little larger than normal renders. Oh and just to rub salt in my wounds Poser makes all my textures dissappear. All I want is some guidelines on how much memory and hdd space I need. Couldn't the guys at curiouslabs at least let us in on this mystery? It's not often I rant and I after my temper cools down a bit I will still love the guys at CL. But this goes on the top of my annoyance list along with my "Y" key always being stuck on. btw I am running a Duron700 with 190mb 133SDRAM with a 6gig + 13gig HDD's available space on the 6gig= 1.5g 13g=2.4g isn't this enough?

256MB is a good minimum these days for increasingly complex Poser characters. Also make sure your temp space has 6-7 gigs empty. Always and constantly use the Empty the trash icon, and keep your C drive defragged. Hopefully you are also using at least Win 98SE...

thanks, yes I am looks like I might get some more memory. I might add a stick of 256 to the machine and try and clear out some space on my bigger drive.

Taura, I do not think memory is the problem. I've had the same problem as you know from the other thread. I'm still working on trying to figure out the cause on my system. I have it narrowed down to two possibilities. It is either a conflict with another software package, or a corrupt Poser install. I've started to reinstall my PC, slowly re-installing software and testing Poser. I also backed up Poser after I installed it. It has not started acting up yet, but if (when) it does, one of the first things I will do is compare the files in the Poser directory (plugins, etc) with the backup. I have 256MB and 4GB free on the drive where Poser is installed. I've not heard from CL about this, but I did send them email to let them kmow what I was doing.

yes, I remember that thread. Just when it keeps happening more and more often you gotta let of some steam. Please keep in contact with me and let me know of your results, I would love to solve this and I am not in the mood to reformat and start afresh just yet.

I have found that Hp printers conflict with poser. It took me a good three months and about 10 formats to figure this out. I went from 98se to winME to win2000 and then back to winMe and it all came down to the printer. It works fine on all systems without the HP printer installed. I tried 3 different models of HP printes and they all conflicted.

The Printer? Holy spitwads. I have an HP printer (and run poser on an HP machine), and I do get the massively annoying "ding"s all during the render process. It didn't start doing it for me until I added on the ProPack, so I just assumed the "ding"s were another in the long list of PPP glitches. Before I uninstall stuff, are you certain these are printer related?

My old computer had only 40MB memory and a 4 gig hard drive total, and Poser ran beautifully. I never had a crash and my renders went just fine. So I would have to assume that maybe you have a corrupt file somewhere. My new computer is an HP and I've always had an HP printer and it never conflicted with any of my programs, including Poser. I've never heard of this happening. I still use Poser with no problems at all. Have you tried uninstalling Poser and reinstalling it? Maybe something has gone astray. I hope you get it worked out. Melanie

I had simalar problems and the folks at CL helped me track it down to the poser.ini file becoming corrupt...never did find out what corrupted it though.

i run on a 200 mmx machine with 98 mg ram. I dont consider my poser renders simple (in the sense of only one char, i usually as a norm have at least 4 chars, all clothed- so those count as chars, and backdrops.) i dont export to bryce to render- i do all my rendering in poser. I run on win 95b. the only time i have probs with textures dissapearing or freezing up is when i run icq. For some reason icq and poser (on my machine) dont mix. I can do one or the other but not both. Are you runing icq when these prob happen? just a thought,..

Howdy. I dual boot to 2k and 98se, and well, I hadn't booted into 98se in ages but started to recently (for another program) and when using Poser in that, I was getting it to lock up pretty consistently. After running back to good ol 2k, it seems to be going fine. Go figure. However, and here's the stinky part, it runs faster in 98se than it does in 2k, but of course, it locks up! I'm really doubting it's your hardware (at least ram, hd, and cpu...I won't discount other stuff since I don't have an HP printer, for example). Come to think of it...I did just update another program in 98se.... Anyhow, something else to consider I suppose. Hope you get it all working, and contacting CL's support isn't too shabby an idea either. Cheers.

how I resolved the lock up on my machine... by an olde man.. re-installed POse for about the nth time... then set up everything the way I wanted it.. closed poser.. then copyed the poser.ini and poser.rsr files elsewhere for safe keeping.. the last time I failed.. all I did was re-copy those two files to the directory.. shrug worked for me. Oh and the have room on the drive open.. every now and then check the Poser directory for .tmp files... usually named poser_some long number_file.tmp.. or the like.. delete these.. they can and usually will muck up a render in progress... I think they're left behind when POser falls down... CHeers love

In my case it was memory. The guys at DAZ/Zygote told me 200MB for anything with lots of textures or the Michael/Vicki characters. On the Mac, I can directly assign enough memory to a task, and the program is happy. When the program is happy, I'm happy. Considering how cheap it is compared to weeks of your time, a stick of RAM seems like a reasonable first assault on the problem of crashes and missing texture maps. Carolly

I ran a 120Pentium with 96Megs of Ram on WinNT. No problems with Poser at all. Weel, the renders where not as fast as fine. SHARKEY

thats a lot to consider, I have a cannon printer attatched on the end of a scanner but niether is HP. I do usually have icq running (it runs at boot up) but I have tried to render without ICQ running which didn't make a difference unless it is because ICQ might be still hogging some memory even after I shut it down. I like wizzards idea, I think I will do that. Now just installing poser over the top of the existing one should be ok? I have so many library things in there I am loathed to reinstall them all hehehe. I went to the computer shop this afternoon after a stick of 256, but it would seem the the price is too volatile for any of these guys to stock it so I have to order it in and just be patient in the meantime. I will wait until I try all these other ideas first though, cause I really need some more HDD space first, or a digital camera, or an extra monitor ...... ahhhh the list goes on video in is something on my list too. hell I haven't even got my cdrom and hdd's screwed in yet after well over 3months. I keep waiting for the day I regrease up my cpu hehe so in the meantime with the covers off it sounds like a harrier jet in here.

yep thats right, anyone bumps my desk which the computer tower is sitting on WILL DIE! hehe

As for the printer. I tried the 660 model, the 952 model and the 1120 model of HP's and each one the minute I installed them, I would start having problems with poser. Most times I could not render to a new window or it would just lock up on me when I would start to render. I would have to cntrl alt delete to get out of poser or on the new window renders it would give me a blue screen. Sometimes I would have to just hit the power off button also. I know for a fact it was the printer in my case. I now have a canon printer installed and have no problems. I do not have pro pack so I cant say on that.

Interesting, I have a HP660 printer, HP4L Laser and HP860 printer attached to my machine via serial switch and I have never had any problems with Poser and my printers. That having run it on Win98SE, Win NT while I was playing with the Maya freebie and now Win2000. I don't have the ProPack so I can't say if that's causing the problem.

That is weird. (my 660 and 1120 were parallel port and 952 usb port)I went thru everything piece by piece til I found the printer was causing the problem. I havent had any trouble since. Maybe with the combination of the other hardware I have is different. dont ask me why LOL I have found that the computer has a mind of its own when it comes to stuff like this. I am just happy I have no more problems since removing the HP printers. Dont get me wrong I love HP printers but they would just not work for me when I had poser and them installed.

I use a pII 300 with 64MB and a 4gig hard disc. I never have any bother with poser at all.