Well I don't know vue well enough yet(still have trial), but carrara has hardware opengl support(since v3)...has it's own sofware render too, of course, but there is a difference. But as far as I know they have only increased the hw support for opengl each time. Granted Carrara is due for an update soon so it is a bit older. But it has a nice renderer. Are we talking about 2.0 vs 1.x specs here? I know Poser has limits. The renders I get in D|S just look too cartoony... I don't see many support options so honestly, I am not sure of all the support of it's renderer...haven't seen much spec info. Didn't want to open a huge discussion, but unless there are bug fixes drivers don't usually make a diff and in this case...there has not been any new innovations to opengl like texturing etc... that would be changed in an update to a 9600 card.Not that I am aware of. Most of their video card driver fixes are for game gpfs and bugs. Just saying the idea to update things that work w/o specific reasons is not sound.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.