Just installed P5 SR3 and running under Win 2000 Pro SR3. Maybe it's my imagination but my CPU temps seem to be running about 5 degrees Celcius lower than before with SR2, with the additional bonus that even with lots of stuff loaded up the CPU usage drops to 1% when not doing anything. It also seems to recover faster after doing something like rendering or posing, dropping from 100% much faster than I remember.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Hey, maybe CL finally got something right in the whole Poser memory handling problem area with this release.

Regards
STORM

After updating I cant use walk designer anymore. The cursor spins forever. Anyway it seems a litle faster. I will try a clean instalation, later. CD

How long is 'forever'? After installing the updater, on the first launch of the Walk Designer, Poser regenerates the WD's cache. This may take a couple minutes. From the second launch on, it should be as fast as always. Give it a try before reinstalling everything.

Uli K I did. I waited more than 5 long minutes but the WD finaly opened. Now it is faster then ever. Everything is a little faster. Thanks for the tip. CD

I noticed that also (the Walk Designer taking a while to open on its initial launch). Other than that one-time inconvenience, it's working fine for me now.

After several tries. Of having tried getting the Walk designer to work(my figure would disapear)I blew away my present version and did a complete clean reinstall and it works now and it seems to run faster then before.

I agree to all above.For me everything seems to run a bit smoother and faster.Starting walkdesigner first time took about 5 min but the second time it opened very fast.

How does it compare to PP, if you folks don't mind saying. I just upgraded to PP and am very happy (needed to stay with 4 for vue) Starting to really want that cloth room, though. eric

Having used both versions, I'd say the P5 interface is slightly more sluggish than Pro Pack's, at least on my hardware. If you have a heavily-muscled system, you probably won't be troubled by it.

The Firefly renderer is usually slower than Poser 4's. I've gotten some speedy renders out of it, but it really depends upon what you're doing with the scene. If you have it tricked out with a lot of transparency, raytraced reflections and refraction, displacement, dynamic hair, polygon smoothing, heavy antialiasing, depth-of-field, motion blur, etc. and are using the maximum quality settings, then you'd best go out for coffee, because it'll understandably take a while. But the results are worth it, and at least we can say it's still faster than Bryce.

P5 includes the old P4 renderer, which is almost as fast as Pro Pack. It doesn't support all of Firefly's render options, of course, but if speed over quality is your concern, it's nice to have.

Other than the hosting plugins (3DS Max, Cinema 4DXL, Lightwave), Poser 5 has all of the functionality of Pro Pack. You wouldn't lose anything by upgrading.

Vue doesn't work directly with Poser 5, as you might have heard; it looks for the P4/PP executable before importing Poser files. Hopefully, e-on will address this in a future update for Vue, but since you already have Pro Pack, you should have no problems should you choose to upgrade to P5. Features specific to P5 (dynamic hair and cloth, procedural textures) won't import to Vue, but perhaps e-on will also add support for some of these in a future version.

I use Bryce and Vue so I have no need for Firefly. But even the Poser 4 renderer in Poser 5 is so much slower than Poser 4 or Propack. Propack is slightly slower than Poser 4. And it's not just the renderer, the interface is more sluggish as well. At one point I had decided to use Poser 5 because of the better library management. I gave it up and went back to Propack because of the speed issue.