DazStudio is in no way ready to take over from Poser5. Poser5-SP4.1 runs more than acceptably stable on my system (PIV 3GHzHT, 1,5GBDDRam, XPPro). Up to now, I never had a freeze or a crash. (I don't game, and I don't install "any" soft on my puter, run a virusscanner, firewall and SpybotS&D) I never used P4 or PP, but I did read lots of threads in which people complained about P5, so at first I thought I had made the wrong choice. I don't think so anymore. - I like the material room. The node-based shader system is very good. - the content room (a fossile from egisys) can easily be deleted - runtime folder organisation is very handy with subfoldes etc. - rendering quality is good. Not as good as Cinema4D (can't speak of anything else), but good. Radiosity is best ok. - dynamic hair is not bad, etcetc Poser is a brontosaur, and has never been created for what it is used for now, but it works. So I don't think I wasted my money.

I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now I'll be mad. (Rumi)