It may not work on all systems. It's hard to tell what everybody else has running in their backgrounds...Everyone has other (different) software and apps..
Having said that, you may not notice the difference that I have.
In XP, I also disable all the "useless" services that are running (from services.msc in the command line) in the background and using precious recources...So, my system services are minimal, "gutted" for (at least in my own mind) for 3d apps that I use, and Stereoscopic apps..
In the end, on a 30 frame animation with V3, and high-res textures, scene, lighting and props, the "high priority" setting shaved 2.26 minutes off the final rendered avi.
This is significant to me..
I am very happy I did this, heehee please dont yank the rug out from under my self-proclaimed glory....(lol)
2.26 minutes on a small animation with hi res settings and lighting is awesome... This seems to be a consistent number as I tried it 5 or 6 times to be sure...I wonder if the CPU load is "progressive" with Poser??...meaning it slows with use. I suspect it is, but I never checked... Maybe there is no performace hit with regular use and renders, but perhaps the higher priority setting somehow "locks" the CPU load for the app and it dont slow down....and this is where I may be getting the lower render time numbers... if this is the case, well again, 2.26 minutes off a 30 frame animation! (yaaaaaaaaaaay) Im sticking with it for now... As far as Windows saying 100 percent CPU usage, Ive never really trusted that reading within Windows. The numbers that show and "proove" whats goin on can be found using other "benchmarking" proggys dedicated for that purpose...and always read differntly that the windows readings.. Think of it this way... Windows needs certain things to run, regardless of using another App by itself.. For example... the service "explorer.exe" is one of your highest CPU load thingys running....nothing will work without this (obviously).. CTL-ALT-DEL, find it in your task manager under processes and shut it down..see what happens... a few others cannot be shut down too, and still have windows run. This is why I dont "believe" the CPU load numbers Winders tells ya Poser is using (100 percent CPU usage) because if it really was using 100 %, nothing else could work (like explorer, or the other required services needed to make windows run)... Now Im just blabbin.. thinkin aloud Just a tip that I found worked for me and 2.26 minutes makes me ...well..... jiggy! :) Hope someone can use it besides me.