I've seen this happen to others but it never happened to me till now. I was dumb enough to open a folder while waiting for Poser to start up and this happened. I have restored to factory whatevers, no good, I have gone back to preferred settings, no good. Still this weird pink noman'sland. I can't bring any figures up into it, they seem to be transparent or something. I've tried resizing it, no good. Please somebody help. Emily

Emily, Oh, the charms of Poser weirdness. This precise thing hasn't happened to me, but I've found that other idiosyncracies can often be cured by just closing the program & then restarting the computer. Restarting seems to flush "confusion" out of whatever is confused. Good luck!

I've rebooted once, but sometimes they want more tribute, the Puter gremlins. It'll probably be fine in the morning. But this gives me good reason to finally load up the pro pack and move my installation of Poser to my main drive. I just hate that particular pepto bismol pink-- it's not saturated enough for real PB but you know what I mean. Just one little render of Jean Luc, that's all I wanted. Emily

It looks like video driver weirdness to me - I usually check to make sure I have the latest driver installed, then I use device manager to delete it, reboot, and let windows re-install it on the fly - If the problem persists, I'd try changing hardware acceleration settings or color depth/screen resolution until problem stops. Unless it's a conflict with something you've recently installed, I'd expect the problem to clear up. (Also, if your version of windows has "use animations" enabled, you might try turning them off) Good luck, & I hope it clears up.....

Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww...! Yuck..! It's made your desktop colours go a horrible purpleee colour as well :)

"You don't have to be mad to use Poser... but it helps"

It's probably a conflict with Tweak-XP pro which I got to improve my Poser speed. [oh yes, I am batting 1000 today] There are no other new installations. Same video card and driver the puter came with-- nothing new there. ziggie, be nice, I'm a goil, I get to have poiple if I wants it. It's just that piiiink that's way too much. Emily

I had this happen when I tweaked my virtual memory pagefile. You might want to check that - should be 2.5 times physical memory (I think? someone probably knows better)

For Poser to work properly, virtual memory cannot be set above 2GB. Otherwise, you get something exactly like that image above. I set mine to the max (4GB) and whenever I sized the document windows, it only filled in the original size area. Plus, all of my figures were "invisible". Set it to 2GB, and everything went back to normal.

1.5 times your RAM.

-- erlik

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/archive/65/

There's a patch for large memory configurations on the CL site somewhere, (link) one for Poser 4, the other for Pro Pack. later jb

Size of virtual memory compared to real memory doesn't matter. From the "Top FAQs": Poser 4 and Pro Pack The Poser figure is invisible. Only an outline of the body is seen with the cursor on it The virtual memory is probably set very large. In the order of 4 gigs or more. Reduce the total minimum to 2 gigs or less. Restart the system. For users who have 2 gigs or more of RAM and virtual memory, a memory updater would have to be applied. For Poser 4.0.3 users, download the Poser 4.0.3 Memory Updater For Pro Pack users, download the Pro Pack Memory Updater Although this is for "figure invisibility", it also effected the document window exactly as is shown in the image above. So, if you added more memory to push it above 2GB, you'll need the patch. If you changed the virtual memory settings to be above 2GB, you'll need to fix it. If it's something like Tweak-Pro, you're on your own, pretty in pink ;P

This is funny-- I've had 2Gs of memory since I've been working Poser on this machine couple of months now. Yesterday, at the behest of tons of people to whom I was complaining about how slow and buggy P4 was with three mil figures, I tweaked the virtual memory. And then this happened. I've got the CL downloads to fix it, but why hasn't it minded till now? I suppose it didn't know I had 2Gs of ram.:)))) it has acted like it. Emily

Oh, by the way, does anyone know how to restore right click abilities-- Tweak-Pro took them away everywhere. And it uninstalled but still. . . . I'm doing a system restore and see if that fixes it, otherwise, I have to find out where it can be manually added. Emily not very high on Tweak-Pro.

Sys restore worked and got it all taken care of-- then I did the Memory fix. Thank you for your help. Emily