Poser 5 is slow---period, especially utilizing FireFly Prod.

Shadows are the things that really bog the render down..plus the size of the pz3 of course...but try to reduce the shadpw map sizes...and turn shadows off on objects that it doesn't matter in the image.
for an experiment , render with shadows on, then try a render with them off...see what happens.

as far as your system...yes, if you are ready and can afford an upgrade, I'd go for it. My system is currently AMD64 3200+ with 1gig ram...its really decent, but 2 gig ram would be ideal....I upgraded from a similar system..1.8ghz and 512meg ram..there is more of a difference in virtual memory useage...the render speed did improve, but not as much as I would have thought...but the hard drive churning is gone. IS there a good benchmark pz3 floating around ???? and a list of system speeds ????

Message edited on: 02/12/2005 07:24

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