brycetech opened this issue on Dec 04, 2001 ยท 65 posts
brycetech posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 5:55 PM
Hi I am making a program for poser file management/automated distribution packaging/cr2 edits/morph managing/phi building/cr2 link checking and lots more stuff. I would like to have some kind of idea of what the standard poser community uses for an OS and the size of you current poser directory. for instance, I use Windows ME and my Poser directory is ~1 gb in size. I ask because even windows systems will not report various items the same...such simple things as acquiring "free disk space" are not reported and handled the same way for each one (silly huh?) and I want to know how many people use what OS so I know what areas to focus on... this also gives me an idea of how many poser files an average user of poser has. thanx BT
Maz posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:04 PM
My Poser directory is very nearly 2GB. However, I keep most of my Poser stuff elsewhere. I have a further 1.6GB or more on my hard disk and several CD-ROMs, and six or seven Zip disks of Poser stuff. Then there's the 3D stuff that I've developed outside Poser which probably runs to another 3 or 4 GB. I use Win 98 on my desktop, and Win 95 on my laptop. Don't ask. I don't know why either. Maz
peejay posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:06 PM
Windows 98SE Poser directory ~ 750Mb (desperate for a faster machine with more space! but who isn't?)
CatDabbler posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:16 PM
I am using a Win98 SE computer. My Poser directory is almost 4GBs with Runtime at about 3GB. I keep most of the zip files, images, texture templetes, extra templets, morphs, ...on CDROMs. Lynn
rwilliams posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:18 PM
Windows2000 Poser Directory=2.2Gb, 7554 files, 426 folders
Ghostofmacbeth posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:20 PM
Mac OS 9.2 and dang huge. 2 Gig or so (I am not at home)
brittmccary posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:37 PM
:o I haven't even DARED to check the size of my Poser directory. I know one thing! It's BIG. I use WIN 2000
JimX posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:42 PM
Mac OS 0.1, and the Runtime folder is 1.2 gig
Strangechilde posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:43 PM
Mac 9.0.4 (desperately wanting X, need machine that can run X); Poser folder approximately 900 meg.
Grey_cat posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:43 PM
I use Win ME. My Poser directory is 1 GB, and I have 3 or 4 Gb on CD-ROMs.
scifiguy posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:46 PM
WinME, Poser dir=4GB. Good grief, I never realized that! Bet those stupid bum files are sucking up more than their fair share!
wander posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 6:48 PM
Mac OS 8.6, 9.1. Current runtime folder 3.1 GB, texture folder 1.5 GB
Daio posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:01 PM
Mac OS 9.0.4 Currently my runtime folder weighs in at a gargantua 9.92 gig containing over 16,000 files ::blinks and doublechecks those numbers:: Gads.... and I have 5 CDs worth of stuff that's not even installed.
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SnowSultan posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:12 PM
Windows XP, with a 1.8 gig Poser directory (I recently cleaned it all out though) and 17 CDs full of Poser stuff. Yow. :) SnowS
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Crescent posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:25 PM
WinME. (I know, get a real OS ...) Poser = 1.86Gb. That's after a small cleaning. I also have a bunch of stuff I've yet to install. But Daio still wins!
Tomsde posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:33 PM
Mine is 769 Mg on Windows 98 second edition. I keep my pictures stored on my other hard drive. I back up images and downloads on CD roms.
Cheryle posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:35 PM
win2k, 10 gigs on the dedicated poser hd 3 hd's currently installed- about to install another 60 gig hd for a total of 120 hd space- only 512 mg ram but may go to 1 gig very soon.
soulhuntre posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:39 PM
Windows XP Professional About 1.5 gig
Papu posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:46 PM
ME, 2.6 GB (I never realized it's so much!!)
pokeydots posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:47 PM
Poser = 3.71Gigs lol and thats not half of what I have, a lot more stuff is on backup cd's :)I am running windows,amdk6 athalon processor,320 MB Ram, 22.8 Gig hard drive, with 11.3 free space left
Poser 9 SR3 and 8 sr3
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2.80GHz, 4000MHz System Bus, 2MB L2 Cache + 6MB Shared L3 Cache
Hard Drive Size: 1TB
Processor - Clock Speed: 2.8 GHz
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Graphics Type: ATI Radeon HD 4200
•ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics
System Ram: 8GB
ChromeTiger posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 7:56 PM
Windows XP Professional, Poser working directory is 8GB on a 30GB drive...without everything installed... :)
judith posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 8:13 PM
Win 98SE (I never have any problems, why fix it if it ain't broke?), 850 AMD Athlon, 384M RAM, 7.69G Runtime Folder. Just took off a about 1.25G of Posette and Dork stuff. Running out of space and thinking of losing my partitions. Daio's got me beat!
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qbert posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 8:21 PM
Win98SE 1.9G
lalverson posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 8:32 PM
Win98/Metacreations folder-16.7 GB/Runtime-16.6 GB/
Daio posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 8:56 PM
Lee's got us all beat. :-)
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Cheryle posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 8:59 PM
pokeydots.. start saving for a new hd ;P you will fill the rest of it up in no time. my poser directory is 10 gigs and growing(i really need to learn how to optimize my textures;P) i would burn to disk- but once it hits disk- it's gone, never to be found again ( well not easily found) ;D
lalverson posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 9:07 PM
Mind you the 16 gb is just the stuff I use, we will not go to the "Off Line" HDD (20GB)
Cin- posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, but Lee buys EVERYTHING! Win 98SE (Soon to be 2000 probably when/if I get to build a new computer), and 4.37GB
Valandar posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 9:36 PM
Windows 98, Poser Directory 1.6 gb on a 2 gig secondary HD
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MGCJerry posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 10:15 PM
Heres my specs: Celeron 700 Win2000 Pro 128 MB RAM (upgrading soon to maybe a 1.1GHz) Runtime: 2.1 GB DAZ: 372 MB Freestuff: 450 MB (Zipped at ~89% and not installed) Templates: 400 MB All this stuff is regularly used. This puts my entire Poser program at 2.2 GB... Thats all. Geez I thought it was more than that.
VirtualSite posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 10:31 PM
Mac 9.1 I keep my current projects on separate Zips so I can keep the size of my RunTime folder relatively small. It makes the program run far more efficiently, from what I can see. Having said that, tonight I started CD #23 of archives, some of it Bryce, some of it QuickTime movies, but the overwhelming amount Poser material. Ive developed a very specific indexing program so I can readily find the materials I need for any given project instead of having to dump everything on my HD.
Little_Dragon posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 10:34 PM
Windows 98 First Edition (no, really!!) Poser directory: 663 MB (I run a very tight ship) Miscellaneous: 2.33 GB (zipped and waiting its turn) I'll be moving up to Windows XP Home Edition sometime next year, after the bugs are ironed out.
Huolong posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 10:54 PM
Runtime 27.7 Gigs half of which is texture files, with an additional 4 gigs of props not in pp2 format in an "outside" folder. Windows ME
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leather-guy posted Tue, 04 December 2001 at 11:22 PM
Just finishing 'Porting all my stuff over to my new Desktop; P4 2.0 Ghz, WIN-XP, 512Meg ram. 180 Gig HD Storage Poser4 Folder at just over 21.2 Gig. (I've been re-installing everything off archive CDs prior to re-org'g my Runtime Folders, but with 180 Gig HD, I may not get to it for a while :-))
Aureeanna posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 12:13 AM
Windows ME 2.85 GB
Thorgrim posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 12:49 AM
Windows 2000 - 2.84 GB and growing
bknoh posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 12:56 AM
JoatMon2 posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 1:06 AM
Win 98Se, 1GB
Elsina posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 1:11 AM
Windows 98 (soon to upgrade to XP I hope) Poser folder about 5.5 GB and the rest on CD's An additonal 3G folder with 3ds models and a 1G folder with textures I use in Poser.
EdW posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 1:41 AM
Damn I can't believe the size of my runtime directory.... Win 98SE, 1.33Gb Athlon, 768Mb Ram, 160GB HD, 60 Gb for Poser alone. My Runtime directory is 11.9Gb 15,903 files Alot of stuff I'll probably never use but with the big HD I'll probably never need to trim it down much. Ed
mi-scha posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 2:25 AM
OS: Windows XP
Runtime: over 6 Gb, growing rapidly
I also have a german version of Poser. :P
In this version the names of some folders are different (figures -> Figuren, and so on). Everytime I install something I have to move the library stuff in the correct directories. This bugs me endlessly.
A installation routine which could figure this out would be very good.
Roy G posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 3:26 AM
Windows ME (And disappointed with it)
Poser 4 directory is 6.3 GB
zoozI2000 posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 3:58 AM
Windows 98 32 RAM Pentium 1 200 MHZ Poser directory is about 2GB but I keeps all zips and install files also (about 1.5GB more)
neurocyber posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 4:07 AM
Mandrake Linux...Ok just kidding....sort of....Ok I actually got Poser on Linux and it even opens up but doesn't run....yet....hehehe... Windows 98 and my Poser directory is about 1.3 Gigs and growing. Estimated size of about 3Gigs in the next 2 months. :) :) :)
Gromit posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 4:43 AM
Win NT 4.0 SP5, plan to install Windows 2000 Professional unless I decide to get XP. About 1Gb in Poser folder.
brycetech posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 4:51 AM
oooo..oooo whats the name of the 'geometries' folder in the german version of poser? lol..some of you have HUGE poser runtimes.. keep em coming, this is helping me :) thanx BT
mi-scha posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 6:51 AM
In the german version the 'geometries' folder is called 'geometries'. ;) Otherwise I would also have to hack the Cr2. Only library folders are different. I'm at work, when (if) I go home I take a look and post a list of the names.
gryffnn posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 7:55 AM
3.8GB on Mac 0S 8.6 - moving to 9.x as soon as I have time. Much stuff scattered on almost 100 backup CDs.
saxon posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 9:46 AM
Mine's big too..............................what?
nikitacreed posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 10:57 AM
OS - WinMe Poser folder size - 7.6 GB sheesh
a_super_hero posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 11:45 AM
Win 2000 2.8 Gig
chohole posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 1:05 PM
Win 98SE, on an 800 athlon. runtime currently 3.5gigs, but all my pz3 files are on a 2nd hd and about 3 gigs as well, thats without the textures I keep in a separate folder, that must be approaching 1.5gigs.
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stu-art posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 3:46 PM
458mb runtime and about 20mb on disc. im pathetic thats all i,ve got to show after two years at this. stu.
xvcoffee posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 4:33 PM
The Poser folder is only 1.27Gig, theres a lot of Freestuff still not on and I dont have Victoria. The system is 9.2.1 and the ram stands at 192, but that's soon to change since this is pay month. Actually, as of Final Cut Pro 3, there may be a lot of changes. That was interesting that someone's tried it on Linux.
diana posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 6:36 PM
Win 98SE
Poser Pro Pack 6.7GB
Poser 4 (without Pro Pack) 6.6GB
I have each version on a different partition. The Poser 4 is a mirror image of the pro pack install except for the stuff added or changed by the Pro Pack upgrade. Some things still don't work right in Pro Pack and it hangs and crashes more than Poser 4 does. Setting them up this way means it doesn't matter which one I make a file in, both can find the same models and textures in their own subfolders.
Ironbear posted Wed, 05 December 2001 at 8:23 PM
I have Poser 4.02, and I run a dual boot Win98Se and Win2K system. I quit counting how big my runtime directory was after I almost filled an 8.4gb harddrive...
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MaxxArcher posted Thu, 06 December 2001 at 8:24 PM
WinME, P3 1.3 Mhz, 128Mb, 40Gb HD. Poser 4.03, runtime folder 5Gb, still zipped also 5Gb
wolf359 posted Fri, 07 December 2001 at 8:32 AM
Mac OS 9.2 HFS extended formated 20 gig drive
And Mac OS X.I On a second 9 Gig internal drive
my entire poser propack folder Is only 640 megs
with mike and vicky2, i just burned the whole thing to a backup CD rom.
I dont download much freestuff and these days i basically use
poserpro as a character animation plugin for
Cinema 4DXL version7.1
CL should consider approaching Maxon ( makers of cinema)
and forming some kind of bundling package with poser pro and
cinema .
praxis22 posted Fri, 07 December 2001 at 11:58 AM
Hi, Win Me and ~4Gb before my OS died :( but I'll be a bit more choosy when I get around to rebuilding it at the weekend, I doubt it'll be much smaller, just more managable, the one thing I could use in poser5 is something that shrinks the library view, (to keep it managable, my pose dir is huge :) and keeps the most used ones on top :) later jb
Jim Burton posted Sat, 08 December 2001 at 11:21 AM
Hi BT!- Windows 2000, right now about 3.5 GB, when I get the rest of the junk moved probably about 5 GB. Also Mac OS 9.1, about 2 GB. I'm bi-lingual!
Stormrage posted Sat, 08 December 2001 at 8:31 PM
Windows 98 SE 4.44 GB installed 79 cd's full of poser stuff + 2 gigs on my second drive + probably another 2 gigs floating around my computer.. looking around Jeeze..
Stormrage posted Sat, 08 December 2001 at 8:33 PM
79 cd roms is roughly 50 gig..
Papu posted Sat, 08 December 2001 at 9:01 PM
79 cd's?!?!?! wow
n3k0 posted Sun, 09 December 2001 at 12:43 AM
Windows 2000 Poser4 dir: 6GB data dir (PZ3's, modified textures, renders): 4GB
xvcoffee posted Sun, 09 December 2001 at 11:25 PM
One hour ago I installed two 512Mb RAM expanders, giving my system 1,216Mb of ram. It was either that or one of those new combined CD-RW and Memory stick players, I think I made the right decision, Poser is using 299 of this. Still using 9.2.1