I know that this question may be off topic but I'm not sure where else to ask it. After posting a question here about rendering problems with 98SE, I've been advised to upgrade to Win2K. From visiting the gallerys here it would appear there quite a few EQ players... My question is this, Does anyone know whether W2K runs both Poser and EQ without problems? Thanks for your time. Fang.

i have win2000 and they both run fine fer me.....just FYI

From what I've heard, W2K runs Poser without problems, and my mate has EQ and I believe he runs it in W2K too.

For the record, I recommended that you go to Windows XP. It runs just about everything without a hitch and has other features that W2K doesn't. However, if you have access to a cheaper copy of W2K, then it's definately an improvement over Win98...

Hey, I have Win98 and I run Poser and 3D Studio Max in there. Sure, the rendering times are endless, but it has yet to crash on me.

This post is referring to a post I made a few days ago, Basically the render bar appears and in some of the more texture heavy renders it just sits there. (I'm using a powerful machine and also had the same problem on my AMD machine only worse!!) The only way to quit poser is to end task or shut down resulting in a helluvalot of lost work. A few people had seen this problem while running win98SE. some people mentioned W2K, others mentioned XP but I've been hearing some horror stories on XP. But all I really use this machine for is poser, the net and EQ so if it can handle that, I'm up for anything! Thanks for the help guys!

Don't go XP, seems even microsoft doesn't want to touch it with a sixteen foot pole wearing protective eyeware and rubber steel lined boots... :) OK that might be a bit over the top but XP can either run smooth on your system or just not at all. Axe. (using win '95 with '98 upgrade)

What problems are people having with XP? I hear rumors about these "horror stories" but I never actually hear the horror stories themselves. I'm a computer technician, and everyone I know who has XP is very happy with it. I personally have XP installed on 3 different machines and I love it. It's so much more stable than the other windows OS's, I can't hardly make it crash if I try. It's driver database is so expansive that nearly every piece of hardware you put into the machine gets auto-detected within seconds, often you don't even have to install any additional drivers. For people like myself who tend to upgrade fairly frequently or just prefer a hard-drive wipe once or twice a year to keep things running smoothly, it's SO much easier to get everything back up and running. I remember using Win98 and spending 4 hours reinstalling drivers while hopping back and forth between safe mode. Now THAT'S a horror story!! :)

I just recently swapped from a win98 machine to one with XP and the first thing I loaded on was poser now I can pose and render within minutes instead of sitting here twiddling my thumbs for hours waiting for windows to crash and take all my hard work with it. 3 weeks in and only 2 system crashes so far, with win98 I was lucky to get through an hour without it crashing. So I agree with cyber-organic go for XP and go WHOOOSH!!!!! just like I do now :)

My 98SE system is stable enough to work on for days without trouble - but some things it doesn't like. One of them is heavily bloated Poser scenes. Won't render. It doesn't like huge textures and bumps, for instance. Often bringing down tex size a little or leaving out the bump map is enough. But if not.... The little render window pops up and then..... nothing happens. I always sit and watch it, and if/when the app stops, that little window suddenly gets a drop shadow. If it works OK there's no drop. Watch out for the dreaded drop shadow! :-] Only an 'end task' of Poser gets me out. No data loss, but irritating. And Poser won't be healthy and happy for a restart until I've rebooted and cleaned out memory. I have 892MB RAM and PIII 1GHz along lots of gigs of available HD space, no other apps running. So it must be Poser and Win98SE not being on terms about memory and resources. But sometimes even fairly heavy scenes will render - I'm never sure when it will or not. Other stuff works fine - huge files in Photoshop, Sound Forge or Acid Pro, massive projects in Director, Premiere, After Effects, Flash, etc. Never a hang. But system resources, such as memory handling, allocation of IRQs etc, is not 98SE's best thing. I'll be going up to 2K in a couple of weeks - not XP, as my many apps and peculiar hardware are not all supported in XP - yet. :] FishNose