HELP!!!! As some of you know, lightening struck my house about 3 weeks ago and shorted out the motherboard of my main PC, all my network cards, PC speakers - a real nightmare. Well the main PC is still not working right and so I installed Poser 6 on my old Athlon 1 gig PC with 768 RAM and a 64 meg NVIDIA graphics card. Poser 6's default render resolution is 72 dpi, I believe. I also installed P6 on my Inspron laptop which is a 2 gigaherz mobile Pentium with the mobile Radeon Graphics card. Both backup PCs render my Poser images with a lot of what looks like compression artifacts. Just awful. My main PC Poser 6 settings are the same as on the backup PCs, and yet I have no compression artifacts in the final render. Does anyone know what is causing this????? Thanks so much, Sherrie

Can you post an example? I'm trying to think what would cause this... do the artifacts look similar on both of your backup PCs? Do the renders look just as bad in a graphics program as they do inside of Poser?

Attached Link: http://www.dreamscape3d.com

Yes, the render looks awful in Photoshop, Infranview, on my webpage etc. and in Poser 6. Full of artifacts. Go to www.dreamscape3d.com and click on the problem with P6 artifacts link. It doesn't look too bad on the web but right click on the pic and save it to your Pc. Then look at it. Nasty. Thanks, Sherrie same thing on the attached pic made on the dell laptop

Hard to see what your talking about. Is it the texturing on the tree that is the problem?
If so, is the tree a full 3D model or is it crossing planes for the leaves?
If it is the latter then it "looks" like the texture map for the leaf area isn't exact.
If it's the former then make sure your min shading rate is low and your bias on your lights is higher.
Honestly with the high compression of your JPEG it's hard to make out a lot of detail.
Can you resave with a less compression ratio?

Just re-read your post again.. when you are saving the image, at the bottom I assume your choosing JPG, there should be a Quality selection as well. Are you leaving that on Low Quality?

Personally I save all images out as BMP them save them to JPEG in Paint Shop Pro because I have direct control over the compression.