careyp opened this issue on Aug 13, 2001 ยท 10 posts
careyp posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 12:58 PM
I was working on a scene and a message popped up on my computer saying to save my work, almost out of memory, allocate more memory to this program, does anyone know how to solve this problem? I have a 1 gig processor, 100 gigs of hard-drive space, 512mb of ram, I should have plenty of memory to run Poser. Second, I finished my first scene and went to render it and it took about 5 minutes and it rendered all black. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Carey@golenderdirect.org
rcook posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 1:00 PM
Moved to Poser forum.
igohigh posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 1:25 PM
Press "Ctrl-Alt-Del" (ONLY ONCE- do not reboot!!) see what all you have running in the background.....
careyp posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 1:40 PM
I have tried that and just my sound card shows running. I am running Windows 2000. Thanks for the quick response!
TomDowd posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 1:41 PM
Just your sound card shows running? What do you mean by that...and is this under Applications or Processes? TomD
careyp posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 1:57 PM
Sorry, I meant to say in Task Manager under Processes: Processes 51 and Mem Usage: 585376K/1267568K. In Performance it shows my sound card running and poser running. P.s., You guys are quick! Thanks again! Carey Oh, what about the rendering all black?
atthisstage posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 2:08 PM
I've had this happen as well, and it usually does so when Poser is having trouble reading a texture or a bump map for some reason. Rather than tell me that, it gives me the same message, and quits.
careyp posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 2:16 PM
Thanks for the message! I've spent 2 weeks reading the 380 Page Poser guide, the Pro Pack guide, several pages of tutorials, get my first scene finished, which I thought turned out pretty good, and it renered black. Oh well, I try again! Thanks Carey
black-canary posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 3:31 PM
if you're using high res textures and bump maps and shadows and all the other rendering goodies, it can still run out of memory with 512....try rendering it smaller or with less stuff to see if it turns out all black again. And make sure that the volume (partition) with poser on it has enough space--if you have 100 gig but only 1 of it is free on poser's partition it'll have trouble. You can try increasing how much of your hard drive is given over to virtual memory/swap, win2k starts kinda low on that setting. MaryCanary
Poppi posted Mon, 13 August 2001 at 3:41 PM
Sometimes my Poser grows "weird", as well...renders choppy, etc. I have a similar machine. What causes this, on mine, in not occasionally rebooting. If I do that windows readjusts where my memory is going, and all is well.