I placed an order for Poser 5 at Amazon yesterday after seeing the great price. Then I happened to start reading this forum and "freaked out" and cancelled my order. I'm running an AMD dual 1800+ with a Tyan 2460 MB. 1 gig of RAM. I already run Poser 4 for occasional use in video production. It's worked fine...

Is Poser 5 really a bomb, or does the newest patch resolve the problems? Would I be better off just getting the ProPack? Just for some background info., I was going to try and run a Poser animation in Vue 4. That alone makes me wonder if Poser 5 is worth it, even for $99. The new features seem great, but I don't need headaches when I'm trying to make a deadline for a production.

Thanks in advance for any input.

I have found P5 very stable on my AMD since the latest patch. Based on posts, I think that most people have had their copies stabilized, although there are still a few with problems. The materials room alone makes P5 worth the price you have before you. On the other hand, that will be offset by the use of Vue.... I would say, go for it. Where else can you get cloth for just $100? Even if you just use the cloth room as a plugin and render in another package, it's a heckuva buy. It is good to have more tools, although there is a learning curve. Maybe there will even be another patch some day....

AMD 1700+ w/768mb ram here. Poser5 sr-2.1 patch installed. no other problems than the ones reported to still exist, mostly animation. Renders fine most of the time, runs, fairly stable here. At the Amazon price it's cheap, even if it's a miss price I think Poser 5 has value. my 2 cents

Are there specific issues with animation? I would primarily be using it for animations, many of which would be color-keyed out for After Effects compositions. As I mentioned, I get good results from Poser 4, but I admit the new features in P5 are impressive. If they can't be succesfully animated, I'm SOL... Thanks!

I've been using Poser5 since SR2.1 came out, had minor lockups, or freezes, usually something stupid I did cause I was learning. 3 months, minor annoiances and the like. Started playing with animation , tut stuff from the manual, and it's crash city, lockups, freaky results. Now it could be me not knowing what I'm doing, but it 'seems' that lots of issues are with animation and poser5. I have Lightwave 7.5 so it's not a big deal that Poser5 is sort of broken to me, I just export.

I'm working on a project involving lots of animation. (using mainly the cartoon characters from Poser 5) No problems so far, but what are the problems others have found?!?!? H:)

I ran 5 om a amd 1600+ with 1 G of ram after the patches it ran fairly clean , but it's poor performance and making my system act like a 486. I shifted back to 4 with Pro pack and use 5 for certain renders.

AMD 2.2 with 1 gig ram. Works great after the latest patch. I've completely abandoned P4 Pro and am now reorganizing my libraries into sub directories. Now the question is if CL has abandoned us or will they fix some of the minor bugs.

Hrms, seems like us AMD people have very few problems with P5...

I have an AMD Duron 600 Mhz, and things run slow but fine. I also have Memturbo, a memory management tool that lets you defrag your RAM on the fly. That has saved me from freezes many times. P5 is a huge RAM hog. I think that is the basis for most of the post patch problems folks are having.

I have an AMD 1800+...had tons of problems until SR2.1. Runs just fine now, but is slower than P4... I have only used P4 3 or 4 times since installing P5 when it was released...it seems clunky and difficult to use compared to P5.... And you can get it for $99 ??????????????????????

I have AMD Duron, 800mhz 512 ram and the dreaded Windows ME. Poser 5 is slow, but it works! :)

Other than the memory leaks and a glitchy Walk Designer, P5 is now about as stable on my Athlon XP 2000+ as Pro Pack. I was still getting lockups when using the Movie shader node, but I discovered a workaround.

AMD here, although only a 500Mhz K6-2. Runs acceptably but slow. No real issues. Runs better on my P4 2Ghz, but that's more due to RAM and CPU speed than processor type.

AMD 2.1g with 1g ram and Asus A7M266 board. Have Win2k sp3. P5 was buggy in the basic release but all the successive service patches have stabilized it. Current patch seems rock solid, but I haven't gotten into animation with P5 yet. I still use P4/PP on occasion due to the speed with V3. For some reason, V3 is faster on P4. Also, the libraries are slower with the linking thing in P5. But that's about it. I mostly use P5. Your OS has more to do with it than your system from what I gather. Your system is fast enough to handle it. Dunno about the video production. Minor annoyances might bother you, but like everyone says, at that price its a pretty good deal.

Interesting thread so far... Seems like P5 works best on AMD's...