OK, I've been talking to my son who's the PC tech of the family, he says it's more than likely your graphics card. He says you have a PCI graphics card which are not specifically set right for graphics programs.

Before you go off on that, he says if you have one that works with graphics programs perfectly well then you have been lucky, but if you change to an AGP slot card it should solve your problems.

Just because Poser 6 works fine with your graphics card don't mean to say we're wrong either, but there must be something Poser 7 does that don't agree with your current PCI card.

My son said PCI cards sort of go around the long way to get to a point and is more suited to ordinary web browsing and pc TV use, where as an AGP card is graphics dedicated for graphic programs and gaming so goes straight to the point.... if you get my meaning.

When I first got my pc I had big problems with graphics programs and stuff so my son checked the graphics card to find a PCI card installed. I bought a new AGP card and this pc has been just superb ever since. (Pentium4)

I also put deleting to the test in Poser7 and... well... boom it's gone in an instant. I thought it was slightly faster but never really thought much about it till you said and I tested. Seams like the more I use Poser7 the faster and better it's working... LOL

Anyways... I suppose the thing to do is try an AGP graphics card and see what happens.... as long as your pc has a slot for it that is.... which it should, but a rare few don't.

A 700x700 pixel render of a preteen in 4 items of clothing and hair, using bog basic settings, (72 DPI, no shadows etc,) took 6 seconds to render.... WOOOOOSH!.... I didn't even have time to go take a leak... LOL

What processor have you got? BTW. as Athelon (AMD) can be very, very picky too.... IF people can get one to bloody work at all... LOL...  and before anyone has a go at me for that, we've had 3, one new and two second hand.... one refused to boot up at all... the other two just crash within minutes to an hour if they do boot... something to do with the heat sink??? that we just cannot solve.... we just can't work out what's up.

TTFN
Hawk