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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: Allocating memory???
I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I can't find it. When using multiple props/bodies poser(6) is unable to render or save claiming that I am "out of memory" and more needs to be allocated to the program. 1. I am far from out of memory, I had my machine built specifically to run poser and photoshop w/ tons of memory. 2. How do you allocate this memory it's asking for? Is this just a huge bug? Thanks! -Leif.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: Allocating memory???
If you're using a PC, then what OS are you using? Normally I'd assume that most folks are XP'd up by now, but I ask because memory allocation used to be a recurring bugbear with Poser running on versions of Windows prior to XP, no matter how much physical RAM was on the system. The reason for that was the earlier Windows memory manager was only made to address a limited amount of RAM. Photoshop- and a tiny handful of other very cool programs- are rather sophisticated and have their own specially written memory managers to deal with huge RAM sizes, but 99.99% of programs don't and instead rely on Windows to do the job for them. Sometimes it works okay, even beyond Windows' designed address limits through virtual memory but sometimes it's a problem. XP changed all that by having a better memory manager.
Okay, this is probably going to turn out to be nothing to do with your problem all, isn't it? Still, someone might find it illuminating I suppose. Good luck, though.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:34 am Post subject: Re: Allocating memory???
Yep, I thought I might be barking up the wrong tree, though I knew it was a regular problem pre-XP. Can't imagine what the problem there might be then; I'm guessing it's a fault with Poser though, which wouldn't surprise me since it hasn't had a core rewrite for many years. Criminal, really.
From a purely hypothetical viewpoint I'd guess that somehow memory that's being allocated by Poser isn't then being deallocated or released back to the system, so you've got fragmentation. This would certainly show those kinds of symptoms and I know it occurred now and again on an older version of Poser I had. I don't know if one of those "memory freeing" programs would help since I've never used one but it's a possibility.
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