Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=307805&Start=1&Artist=greenbd&ByArtist=Yes

I'm running Poser 4 in Classic mode on a 400MHz PowerBook G4 with 1024MB of RAM, 700 of which I've allocated to Poser, and STILL I get out-of-memory messages when I try to render moderately large scenes.

Take the scene at the attached link, for example. It was rendered in two separate passes with different elements hidden each time, a few weeks before I doubled my RAM. It contains one Vicky 3 with all the facial and a few body morphs and the DAZ Hi-res textures, a Millennium Dragon, and various props. Nine lights. It weighs in at a hefty 108.6MB, even after using DialCleaner.

I tried rendering the same scene today with bump maps on and at a slightly larger resolution, but got the same old "out of memory" warning that zapped half the textures in the scene. I thought having a gigabyte of memory would allow me to render larger scenes and start using bump maps, but it appears not to have made much if any difference in performance.

Is there anything else I can do to make Poser run better, or do I just need to wait for the DAZ Studio beta?

What OS are you using?

Mac OS X 10.2.3; 9.2.2 in Classic.

try giving Poser more RAM, the Millinium Dragon is a hog for it!

I have the same basic config and no prob. Odd.

Well, pushing the RAM allocation up to 850MB seems to have fixed it. Gosh, it's nice to get those bump maps rendered! The dragon looks so much better with them. Thanks for your comments.

sorry to piont out an obviouse answer, get a cheaper more powerfull pc, and dump your pritty but crap mac.

That's not an option, my verbally challenged friend. I've loved Macs for 13 years, and am not about to change. Besides, once the 3D posing software catches up with Mac OS X, it'll be much better.

Sorry I'm dyslexic and English is not my first language I also happen to be typing with one arm, other one was smashed by my stupid power hammer yesterday. But I have to say it again penny for penny you get more bangs for your bucks with a pc. And to it has to be said I go into a lot of studios and galleries and yes macs look great and they look dead arty, but you can almost garentee that a company that uses macs is a company thats going out of buisness.. Sorry but it's a cold truth. Oh just for the record I speek 4 languages and can write in all of them, to a lesser and greater degree. So don't take the piss unless, you can do it in French, Russian, English and Gealic oh and my German is passible, but only realy conversation wise. Sorry if I have miss understood you but I am only an ignorant basher of metal and chipper of stone an artist, and no I didn't go to university, so youll have to forgive my course language its the sign of a ignorant mind. Im only working class after all.

Oh by the way like your work.

donkeyoaty,

I'm sorry that I offended you. I didn't mean to insult your intelligence. From your name I assumed you were a native anglophone, but in any case, you know more languages than I. I hope your arm recovers soon. As for the whole Mac-PC debate, let's just agree to disagree. People have been predicting the doom of the Macintosh for years, but it's still doing well in its small share of the overall PC market. Only time will tell whether Apple survives, but I'm optimistic. I like your artwork, too!

Peace,
greenbd