lemur01 opened this issue on Jul 13, 2002 ยท 8 posts
lemur01 posted Sat, 13 July 2002 at 5:17 PM
AAAARGH! I'm running P4.03. If I load Daz's Michael as a single figure he will render fine. If I put him with any other figures - Vicky for example - then the whole thing crashes when I hit the render button. Is it me, Michael, Poser or what?
Jack
Omnedon posted Sat, 13 July 2002 at 8:38 PM
What machine are you running? How much mem, how fast, etc... Can you render other scenes with mutiple figures (other than Michael). What about Michael with props and/or background?
lemur01 posted Sun, 14 July 2002 at 2:32 AM
Okay, gulps down first coffee of the morning.
I'm running an Athlon 1.33ghz with 1G ram but on windows ME. 16M Voodoo3 graphics card. I've had problems before with rendering mulitiple figures causing the programme to crash but rebooting has always sorted it out. Not with Michael though.
Poser will render fine with Michael plus props and other figures, it's only when I put another Daz figure in the scene that I get the problem.
By the way, it's Michael 2 with Hi-res texture.
Khai-J-Bach posted Sun, 14 July 2002 at 7:40 AM
'Athlon 1.33ghz with 1G ram but on windows ME' and there could be your problem... Win9x (of which ME is part) does not support ram over 256mb :( bascially it's not using it at all.. for that much ram you need win2k or winXp... interesting to note - M$ still support the older 98Se but have effectively dumped ME... Kai
lemur01 posted Sun, 14 July 2002 at 9:52 AM
Yeah I know ME is a hunk of junk, but Hi res Victoria 2 (even with a couple of Milenium kids in tow) will still render okay. I'll be ditching ME for XP as soon as I have enough coin of the realm, but I'm doubtfull about this being purely a RAM problem.
williamsheil posted Thu, 18 July 2002 at 3:07 PM
Windows 9x versions do support RAM over 256K, but there certainly are reports of memory bugs in ME from Poser users.
However, you may also want to try the old trick of deleting some of the RSR files in the geometries (NOT THE LIBRARIES) folder, just in case some of these have been corrupted.
Bill
lemur01 posted Thu, 18 July 2002 at 3:19 PM
Thanks guys. I've up-dated to XP and that seems to have sorted it. I'll have a go at the RSR files too... just to be on the safe side. Thanks again for your help. Jack
williamsheil posted Fri, 19 July 2002 at 1:22 AM
Actually I know remember that I had the same problem with an almost identical configuration ME/256MB, Vicky and Hi-Res hair. The temporary solution was to reduce the resolution of the textures which seemed to be the cause of the problem. Most folk who have upgraded to XP seem to have found a positive improvement. Bill