Hi, I already went through many messages re. problems with rendering. Nothing worked. I haveDell, Win 98, 1GB processor, with 20GB free space on C, and 512MB Ram. You can say that my puter is overqualified for Poser4, but here is my problem: basically I can render only small and simple stuff. I have to turn off "use bump maps" and "cast shadows", otherwise the program tells me that I'm out of memmory, or it freezes trying to render. Occasionally it corrupts my files. Does anybody have any new idea or solution to my problem?

If you tried all the past standard answers (defrag, etc), you might try the Poser Technical forum. I'd say try to solve this problem before even thinking about upping to P5. That'd probably make it worse. But I could be wrong.

Make sure you download the latest update from the CL site. Ron

I wish I knew also ...I get a blue screen fatal error trying to render the MIl Dragon in a new window ...even with no textures or bumps on a 1.4 Athlon with win98se 30 gigs free 512 ram and a geforce2 vid card...I will be careful what I purchase including P5 because no one seems to be able to come up with a fix for it..( I can export to bryce with all textures and bumps and make any size document I want no problem..but sometimes its a hassle when your trying to make a scene and want to be able to adjust the poses.....oh well ...good luck

Upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP. That will fix it. If you refuse to upgrade, then the only other solutions is not to use high res textures (reduce the size of them by about 1/2).

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If it's of any help....had same problems. Was running Win98SE with 512 Ram,and 1ghz.prcessor.Bad man from moving company killed my little baby. Just purchased a new machine running WinXP with only 256 Ram...no problems(even Photoshop and Painter7,both memory hogs work great).Been told by sevral sources that Win9x(95 98 Me),just don't handel dishing out the memory very well.I'm running rings around my old machine with half the Ram, so I think they were right.

Thanks everyone. I think it's time for me to upgrade my windows. :0)

Good choice. I had the same problems and upgraded to Windows XP. World of difference. By the way, I am something of an expert with Win 98 and PCs in general, and I tried my best to avoid the upgrade to Win XP. Nothing worked. When I upgraded to XP, everything worked just fine. Good Luck.

Tina you could try finding a copy of Win2K if you don't like the sound of the XP registration process that so many have complained about, XP & 2K are almost identical being noth based on the NT kernel, I've been using XP since march this year & it's the most stable OS I've used that's come from MS. The only rival to it has been for me MacOS, but don't tell anyone I said that ;) Rob

noth=both damn stupid keyboard :)