more memory may help you, but chances are you need to upgrade your exsisting processor.  Also, I have found that the Poser 4 render engine is faster for me than the Poser 6 Firefly one is.  I have a fairly new, well built machine here that gets upgrades whenever something new comes out to replace what is currently on my system, however even with a gig and a half of memory - without a good processor, the memory wouldnt matter any because its the processor that handles the workload.

For Poser, and most would agree I think - 512 is a good place to start.  These are the system requirements for Poser 6 from the e-frontier website:

• 500 MHz Pentium class or compatible (700 MHz or faster recommended)
• 256 MB system RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
• 500 MB free hard disk space (2 GB recommended)

Among other requirements that I didnt list.

I always take that (____recommended) statement to mean that YES it will work with such and such, but if you want it to work at it's full intended capacity, then get the (recommended) items.

Also, one thing to consider when rendering images in Poser the amount of items in your scene, the backgrounds etc.  Also, rendering with a very high resolution, or rendering a very large image will slow almost any system down somewhat.  Firefly's texture filtering option will also slow you down a bit.

Hope some of this helps.

 

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