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I've had P5 since day 1...have been using Poser since Version 1.... Initially, I was one of the big mouths totally POd at Curious for the terrible conditon of the release. They have improved the program overall and it works pretty well for most things since SR1...it is the only Poser I use...P4 is still installed on my system, but I haven't used it for quite some time. I still get render lock ups now and then.... My recommendation is for at least 1 gig of ram. I'm using 512meg with and AMD 1800+, GF3ti500 64meg video...the ram seems to be the limitng factor. Video card has little bearing on the program, and none on rendering--its the CPU and Ram doing the work...with 512meg ram, my virtual on the hard drive is cranking pretty hard..especially if you get into DAZ models and some of the big props, etc... Take a look at that render which is linked...Poser 5 Firefly in production mode....not bad, and the original looks even better..this is a jpg compressed image.... I would not hesitate to buy P5 right now, especially at that price...plus it has all the goodies from Poser 4 Pro Pack included, other than the plugins for LW, MAx...which most regulat folks don't need anyway...and I think there is a plugin to export to LW now..or max, can't remeber...

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