Whenever I feel sorry for myself about my lame machine someone tops me by saying they are running something even worse. Please sign in with: 1. The specs of your platform = CPU speed/RAM/HD. 2. Poser version used. 3. How you accomodate Poser to your lame machine. -------------------------------- I guess I should not complain: 1. Celeron 2.49Ghz/1GbRAM/70GbHD. 2. Poser 4 alot and Poser 6 just for the fancy stuff. 3. Stripped .cr2s, Narcises Nea for Posette, Reduced Resolution DAZ figures, DAZ Cyclorama, textures resampled down to 1024x1024 in Irfanview, POST-WORK.

1. Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive. 2) Poser 6, SR1. 3) Boot up machine, load up Poser, start clicking buttons and turning dials and clicking buttons and turning dials. Save picture, save file, exit poser, shut down machine, go to bed.

My son is running Poser 5 currently on an AMD 900 1 gig Ram and a MX440 128 meg video card...... Tis slow but it works.....

Heeeee, You guys are way well off. I have got: 1. A celeron 2.4 GHz 2. 1 GB RAM 3. 40 GB HDD (Seagate 5400 RPM) 4. Use Poser6 SR1 (Photoshop 6) I must be lucky...coz My comp runs Poser quite well. Seriously no probs. As a matter of fact a classmate of mine, runs her Poser6 on a P1.4GHz...and both of us have no compplaints.

AMD Duron 800MHz 120MB HDrive 384MB Ram Poser6 SR1 Stuck to Windows ME rather than upgrade to XP - Even though the official specs don't admit it Poser 6 will run on ME - I also try not to run too many other system heavy programs at the same time as rendering. Nigel

Nice try, but thats a f***** typewriter with a TV on top :)

Really? Damn...no wonder I cant get anything to render. I'm gunna git that salesman who sold it too me. I even bought a new mouse for it too. Tom

Up until 3-4 weeks ago the PC that I did all my 3d stuff on was my PIII 450 with 320MB of ram and about 30GB (totalled over its 3 HDDs) of HDD which ran poser 4. Poser 4 figs did what I wanted and are not very resource hungry.

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i gots a 2gz athlon, 768 mb ram, nvdia gforce 5400 128mb graphics card run xp sp2 and i use p6 sr1 and puter just about copes ......i cant render on firefly at final....i have to do the one b4...but im gonna have a go at some settings recommended in another thread

These are war horses... whos got the pony?

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 Processor x86 Family 6 Model 4 Stepping 4 AuthenticAMD ~1311 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V-133 ACPI BIOS Revision 1006 Beta 001-I, 7/16/2001 Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB Available Physical Memory 400.24 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 1.46 GB Page File C:pagefile.sys Wildcat VP800 256 meg graphics card with dual output. Two 17 inch monitors at 1024 x 768 on both I have two other machines running about the same but only single monitors plus a laptop. 4 machines networked together for render farming. Oh...and my brand new computer shown above...that makes 5 Tom

I'm having trouble getting that one networked to the rest. It's the latest technology so I'm sure it's just me...I'll have to go over the manual pretty good on that one. 8 )~ Tom

Spoiled, spoiled people. 1 GHz AMD Athlon (Slot A) 324 MB RAM ~100 GB of disk on 5 drives (one an ancient 800 MB) Windows 2000 SP4 .NET Framework 2/Windows 98SE 17" Refurb Viewsonic 17GS 56K Dial-Up Poser 4 (works fine for my putzing around + I like Vicky sans memory hogging clothing anyway). Do I win a prize?

nghayward is winning at the moment, although I think (s)he is exaggerating about the 120MB drive. That may be a misprint. In any case, (s)he should get a prize for running P6 on ME. That version of Windows wasn't named after a debilitating medical condition for nothing. :) Here's mine, just to play the game: 1.2GHz AMD Athlon underclocked to 900MHz to make it reliable. :) 512MB memory, of which 16MB is shared with the onboard graphics; 120GB HD; Windows 2000. I mainly use Poser 4; Poser 5 has speed and resource problems on this machine.

You will not believe it, but all my work and products are created with this:

1. Pentium I 200MHz MMX 160MB Ram + 200MB max virtual memory (no more room in driver C:), 17 inch monitor and only 1.9 GB of Poser4 stuff in driver E:, the rest is on CDs.
2. Mainly Poser4 and a little of Vue4 and Poser5.
3. Principal character Vicky3 and a lot of textures.

And the result is not slow compared to a XP with 2GHz CPU.
Which is the secret????: Windows 95!!!!!!!!! And the computer never crashes!

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486SX 100Mhz 128Mb Ram 14 inch monitor Windows 98SE, & can handle a single Vicky2 with clothes & accessories in Poser4.

I don't actually use it that often, it's mainly used for accessing my email & playing doom1 as I can never get it to run under WinXP.

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I have a Celeron 2.2Ghz 512MbRAM Geforce5200 128Mb Graphics Card 40gig Maxtor hard drive which is down to it's last 5 gig. Running Poser 6SR1 (just)

"Which is the secret????: Windows 95!!!!!!!!! And the computer never crashes!" I'd scoff at the notion that Win95 would be stable long enough to even load V3 but the local grocery chain uses it for their POS system. With the right applications and TLC, it can work :-)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum? I've run Flight Simulator on a TRS-80.

GAZE UPON THE YE OLDE TIMER POWER RIG MORTALS, AND DISPAIR! Intel 386 SX/16 (REAL MEN DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MATH COPROCESSORS!) 1 MB Ram (I know, I'm a wild man) 80 MB HDD (Let's you store tens of files) 256K Trident VGA (That's 640 x 480 with ALL 256 colors baby! WOOOO!) Dual floppy drives (that 5 1/4 AND 3 1/2, SUCKA!) 1/2 speed CD-ROM (complete with caddies!) Microsoft Windows 3.0 (the almost functional one) Dr Halo (Photoshop? What's that?) It makes a very nice plant stand or door stop.

P4, 3.4 GHz 1 Gig Ram 250 Gig SATA hard drive 256 Meg ATI radeon X600 grpahics Poser6 thefixer poser coord.

Woops sorry. EnglishBob was right that was a typo - I should have said 120GB not 120MB for my hard drive. I couldn't fit my runtime on a 120MB one. Nigel

lol mines not too bad, hp pavilion amd athlon xp 2000+ 1.67GHz 736MB of ram and a 160GB hard drive poser 4 psp 7 and 9.. fav figure is vic3... Rita

Nice try, but thats a f***** typewriter with a TV on top :) And a steam iron as a mouse! ROFL 1.8 GHz P4 with 1 Gig of RAM 120 GB and 200 GB hard drives Poser 6, 5, PP, and P4 (ROFLMAO!)

"And a steam iron as a mouse"? No wonder every time I stop using it,my desk starts smoking. 8 )~ Tom

Intel 8086 was a good processor, but Motorola 68000 was much better.
80286 was a shit and with only 80386 become 32 bit as 68000 was from the begining.
With 80486 was very little improvement, only speed. The big jump was with Pentium I with a little improvement with Pentium II. Todays processor are almost the same Pentium with more speed, with the exception of AMD64 that did another jump.
For running applications there are several factors, CPU, Cache, RAM, BUS, Disk, motherboard and OS that affect the speed and one important factor is the operational system that can neutralise the higher speed of the processor.

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I still have my Commodore 64. Does that count? ;) I also kept my very first PC (Yep I get nostalgic) 33MHZ Processor 200MB Hard Drive 1MB Video Card 4 MB RAM (She was state of the art when purchased) The one I use is Pentium 4 2 GB with 1GB Ram 2 60GB Internal Hard Drives Recently (two days ago) added a 160 GB External Drive I guess that leaves me out. Helen

Heh. First computer was a VIC 20. After which varying Trash 80s, Commodore 64s, etc floated thru our household before my ex got the bright idea of getting a PC. It was a 286, had 2mb of RAM, 40 mb hard drive, and Goddess knows what the video display was. ;-)

I first had PP4 running on a 300 mhz AMD, 8mb Matrox video card, Windows 98 and it was fine, IIRC. After a house fire took away that computer I put it on my son's 533 mhz Celeron, 384 mb RAM (almost maxed out his motherboard), W2K.

Current:

Three-year-old Dell, extensively upgraded. :)
P4 2ghz Processor
712 MB RAM
2 80 gb internal HDs, 1 120 gb USB 2 external HD
128 mb NVidia 5200 video card
DVD drive and dual-layer DVD burner
No telling what we'll stick on it next. Probably more RAM, which will max out my motherboard. The floppy long got clogged up with dust and I'm looking to replace it with a memory card reader.
Been a darned good running little pc, too.

Currently running P6 with few problems, mostly figuring out how far to push the program and my pc's limits with it. ;-)

Message edited on: 06/09/2005 00:16 cause this late at night I can't spell for shit and a VIC 20 is not a friggin PC, for Chrissakes...

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1.1 gigaherz computer with 128 megabytes of ram. Poser 5 works ok with it but I don`t know about poser 6 (yet). I use propack mainly for the speed.

And what about Z80, 8085, 8051 ???, I have many boards. My first computer that I've used was an IBM 1620 with 16K memory, all done with relays occupying half room space plus a card reader and a slow printer, of course nothing of disks, tapes, keyboards or monitors.

lol @ hawkfyr. I thought my specs were good until i read some posts here :( P4 2.4ghz 1gb ram /40gb,80gb and 160gb hd's Poser6 running on the 160gb windows on the 40gb all by itself cause i treat windows like a plague victim...lol

I guess i cant complain but i do heres my specs: athlon xp 2800 1.5 gb 333mhz ddr 2 200 gb hd radeon x800xt poser 6 + sp1 Im actually willing to sell my radeon for a more compatible geforce 6800 anyone need a new gaming card?