How do you . . .

digitalmagi · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: How do you . . .

Allocate more memory for Poser to use?
I couldn't save a file last night because there wasn't enough memory available.

Ratteler · Forum Member Joined: Jun 10, 2002 Posts: 543 Location: NYC

What platform, OS, and version of Poser are you using. Also how much memory do you have?

I've heard of this kind of thing with Win98, and older versions of Poser or MacOS9.

With the Windows thing I don't remember exactly that the problem was, but it had nothing to do with memory.

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but maybe if you give us a little more.

digitalmagi · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: How do you . . .

I have never seen this error before and since the file is buggered it may have been a glitch.

Running win XP, Poser 6, 1gig of ram.

It popped up and said cannot save file allocate more memory to poser. (i paraphrase)

i thought maybe there was a setting as in Photoshop where you could determine how much of the available resources Poser can use. I didn't see anything though.

Ratteler · Forum Member Joined: Jun 10, 2002 Posts: 543 Location: NYC

Pretty much same setup as me. Ok I'm stumped.
Is your HD full? Maybe you ran out swap space for your page file.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: How do you . . .

I don't know how to fix it as a system memory alloction problem, but the easy thing to do is render your scenes with the high poly figures in the foreground invisible, paste the render to background, then delete all the props in the background, and render again with the remaining figures visible.

digitalmagi · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: How do you . . .

This wasn't even a render issue, i was trying to save the project so i could go to bed. It was weird.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: How do you . . .

That is weird. I'd do a defrag on the system, and start over tomarrow.

digitalmagi · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: How do you . . .

yeah i think Rattler hit on it, i think i need to get a bunch of crude of my hard drive.

Ironbear · Forum Member Joined: Nov 06, 2001 Posts: 1038

It popped up an "Out of Memory: Please allocat more memory to Poser" error?

Pretty common P4/Poser Artist error... not sure about the other versions.

Check the Runtime:Geometries folder, and clean out all of the *.rsr files. Then restart poser again.

ONLY the Geometry rsr's - *NOT* the library rsr files.

If you're using a version of poser that doesn't use geometry rsr's, then I'm stumped. You'll have to ask someone familiar with Poser 6/7...
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finister · Forum Member Joined: Oct 21, 2002 Posts: 94

Poser leaks more memory the longer your use it in one session (p4/5/6... I don't have P7 so can't say about that). I use Memturbo to defrag all the RAM memory Poser has leaked/sucked. Otherwise with large scenes one has to constantly restart the PC to reclaim lost memory.

Sometimes though, Poser gives you a faulty warning like... can't display texture because not enough memory... which is B.S.

But if Poser has sucked your memory and you try to save a scene it can sometimes just save an empty scene. I think Poser5 sr2/3 and Poser6 sr2 both fixed this in those versions.