looks like we x-posted... you are correct, D|S does NOT use the hardware for final rendering, only for editor-window rendering. Which is why I've been saying all along that it really doesn't make THAT much difference which one you choose... except that (contrary to statements others have made in this forum) some ATI-using folks seem to be having more driver-related issues than NVidia-using folks. Having said that, I'm sure that Daz will work out (or work around) whatever issues they can to make it run equally well on everyone's system.

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