I have a Pent4,300mhz,1 GB machine. I need to get more speed. Would an increase to 2 GB ram give me sufficient capacity to get a decent render speed for nominal size renderings under Poser 6. I find things pretty slow now. I know there are a lot of variables to an answer for this question so I need a little advice on what I need for a good expansion based on the info I have provided. Thanks vanezz2

Is your processor only 300 MHz? You don't mean 3 GHz? At 300 MHz I don't think you can expect any great rendering speeds regardless of the amount of RAM.

Sorry.....300 Ghz

300 GHz? .......... OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo......... me want on of those !!!
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I think it's more important to fully understand the Firefly renderer before investing in new hardware. Read up on how the renderer in Poser works. Also, be sure not to let the renderer work with things that doesn't matter in your picture, for example using texture maps that are larger than the final render. Check out the info at the e-frontier homepage (for example, this: http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1406/1/323/, same as Chapter 7 in the Poser Tutorial Manual) and read the Poser User's Guide Part 7. More RAM might help when doing large renders (lots of large textures etc), but in my experience the settings of the renderer are far more important.

Doc...lololol! ;-) -jay

I have 4 Gig RAM From my experience, going from 1Gig RAM to 2GIG will accomplish almost nothing. Even in my most aggressive renders, I've never gotten Poser to address more than 1.2 GIG. The main elements in bosting rendertime performance in Poser are: 1) Fast CPU, such as AMD Athlon 4000 2) Backside cache, 1MB, not 512K or less 3) Proper management of defragged hard drives, with swap file not on the same HD as OS. ::::: Opera :::::

"3) Proper management of defragged hard drives, with swap file not on the same HD as OS."

Addenendum to Opera's suggestion... swap file on a different "physical" drive than OS... I've worked on some folk's PC's and they only had 1 big HD but had it partitioned creating different virtual HD's ( C:, D: etc.) but were physically the same HD, this configuration does not benefit having the swap file on a different virtual HD than the OS as it all on the same HD to begin with... I have my OS on a 30gb drive, my swap file on a 40gb and Poser on it's very own 160gb drive all internal with an external usb 160gb drive for storage. I find since setting up this way Poser 6 runs beautifully even with my single 40gb+ runtime.

Well, my two cent's are spent!

Gerard

Message edited on: 03/04/2006 12:46

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OK....got the picture. I have plenty of drives in my computer so no problem. I will settle for making all of the suggested adjustments before I add the additional ram and I know I will get lightning results.....only happens on CSI shows. Thanks