Does it make any sense to buy PBoost if you have Poser5 ? And another question about Pboost... Does it make P5 Mat file ?

Got same questions myself.

PBooost is the best program I have bought for poser. It lets you keep your Libraries organized to your liking. When combined with Correct Reference Pro (or even the free version) they are a dynamic duo to ease your poser work. Alberto Odor, MD Mexico City

With PBoost you can speed up your process of building a scene. After organizing your runtimes, it makes it very easy to switch between the new runtimes you have created. This makes it very efficient when looking for items in a large library. Also I have to agree with aodor, Correct Reference Pro, makes a huge difference when it comes to speeding up Poser, by making corrections, and deleting incorrect references.

I know the big advantage of PBoost is to organize the runtimes... But as Poser5 has multiple runtimes, is PBoost usefull or useless ?

I find it very useful, even Poser 5's multiple runtimes can become very disorganized. This program just helps to control the chaos it can become when the library gets really big.

I'll second that. If you are just starting with P5, and have little to no added content (for now) the need isn't very pressing. However. Most who have P5 have upgraded from P4-PP, and usually have a multi-gigabyte runtime to link into P5. P-Booost is a godsend then; it lets -you- decide how you want to divide up your content to make it easier to find (my 'characters' list in P-Booost is 23 entries long, and I'm still subdividing it out). I mostly use only the characters, props, and poses folders, as that is where 99% of the overload occurs. About the only other way to do it is to set up a dummy installation folder, install any new content there, and manually move the folders to where they belong. And with things like morph injection, you have to get certain folder located in one spot for them to work. Also, with P5 it is best to install -nothing- into the native P5 runtime; it slows startup, potentially a lot. The only things that =has= to be in the P5 runtime are the !DAZ, !RDNA, !AEON pose folders; these have the deltas for the morph injections, and they have to be in the root runtime where the Poser.exe is.

I've decided not to use PBooost with Poser 5, because I can use the multiple Runtimes, and subdirectories. I do, however, use PBooost with my Poser 4 installation. Yes, I still have both versions installed. Sometimes it's just easier to use Poser 4 for some things.