nontroppo opened this issue on Apr 26, 2003 ยท 13 posts
sandoppe posted Sun, 27 April 2003 at 9:23 AM
You know....I've never quite figured that one out nontroppo. Before I purchased P5, I downloaded the demo of Poser Pro and used it without a hitch. In fact, if it's still available, you might want to try that on your machine and see how you like it. I never had P4, so it seems like it must be a stand alone or the demo wouldn't work without P4....or maybe the demo was a P4/PP demo.....that's what was never clear. There may be someone here who can answer that more precisely, or you may want to call CL. The P4/PP combo is quite expensive, which is why I ended up buying P5. At that time, they did not offer a standalone P4 (this was around this past Christmas). The bottom line: if your system is not likely to be able to handle it (and the threads should give you some hint of that), I don't think I would buy P5 until you can afford to upgrade/purchase a high end computer with about 1G of Ram to properly handle the hair room and other memory intensive parts of the program. Even with 512 mb of ram those things are very slow for me.