Poser gave me a monstrous crash earlier this afternoon when I tried to import a 3DS file. Now, when I try to add one of my characters, it totally locks up after a series of the usual: "texture map does not exist or cannot be found," and everyone's favourite, "You are out of memory!" and then Poser does a major crash. When I try to render another that DOES load ... the messages repeat on loading, and it crashes again. In the latter case, it's almost worse. When I use the option to view with textures, they're obviously there. Yet it still tells me that a map doesn't exist or can't be read, and crashes. I know all the files are there. Does anyone know what the heck is going on before I give up and try to reinstall?

I generally get the "you are out of memory" message when a "cr2" file cannot find an "obj" file, with the subsequent crash of Poser. But if Poser crashes on another file, sounds like your Poser file has gotten corrupted. A re-install might be the simplest way around this problem.

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. I'm really trying to avoid the reinstall until after I pick up the new external drive, but if I'm not going to be able to work at all ... ugh. It's definitely not the usual .obj error on the first one, I tried deleting the .rsr just in case, newp. And I've used that character over and over without problems till now. The second loads everything just fine, THEN throws errors when I try to render. Feh.

Have you checked for temp files?

Yep. And killed a retarded swap file. And defragged. And checked drive space. And ...

...I don't envy you. ~EA

I think about the only left that can help my laptop is a priest. Anyone know a good exorcist? The weird thing is that I can still render Liya. All of the men cause Poser to fail. I wonder if it's trying to tell me something ....