My PPP hangs when I first try to start it up. Sometimes it takes several restarts before it gets past the opening screen. I've reinstalled, added all the patches. I have Win98 with 512M ram. Anybody else have this problem? Mike

Sometimes that's caused by driver conflicts. Have you tried running in 32 bit graphics mode?

Yup. Doing it as we speak. :/ Mike

Okay, so did it help any?

I meant that I had already been in 32-bit mode. (Darn my lack of, um,... word... knowing. Oh! Vocabulary!) Mike

Hehe, sorry I couldn't be of more help.

MDibble, it takes me an average of about 4 minutes for Poser to load up since I installed the pro pack. So far nothing has worked to cut down that time. I have gotten it to stop hanging by using a ram booster program, but it still takes anywhere from 4 to 7 minutes to finish loading. And everyone I've spoken to about this just tells me that it's all the libraries, etc. slowing it down, even though it wasn't anywhere close to being this slow BEFORE installing PPP. I've given up trying to get it to load faster and just go find something else to do, like vacuum the carpets or fold laundry while I wait for it to load up. Kate

Wow Kate, that's a long time. I just timed ProPack loading to see how slow it was on my system. It didn't seem much if any slower than Poser 4 alone at 49 seconds from the time I clicked the shortcut to the time it presented the fully ready to use workspace. My ProPack Poser folder is 4.99GB and has 20,439 files in it, I'm running a Pentium III 500Mhz with 256MB RAM and I had Netscape and a few other smaller apps running when I started ProPack this evening.

Make sure the drive that PPP is on is defragmented. If it has to go hopping through fragmented library files it could increase its time significantly. As for the original question, MDibble are your running Win98 or Win98 SE? TomD

Hey TomD, I'm running Win98 SE. I tried the defrag thing, but still same problem. Guess I'll have to live with it. :/ Mike

Well dang.... I wish ya luck. TomD

Thanks. :)