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It is a dream of mine to one day delete Propack from my computer, and carry on with a newer version of Poser. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen with Poser 7, or with any other version that I'll shell good money out for before EF recognizes the need for better system resource management.*

How can you be sure it hasn't happened with Poser 7 if you don't try it?

While I can't exactly state whether P7 will render faster than P4 (as I don't have P4 anymore to test it), it is a better version of Poser. I do know that Firefly can render slower, but that's because of the more advanced features it has compared to the P4 renderer.

I did a scene with 5 Vicky 3's, with hair, high-res textures, clothes, and about a half-dozen lights, put together in P7, rendered in minutes with the Firefly renderer, with shadows. And the Firefly didn't even use over 1 Gb of memory.

I tried doing that same scene in P6, first with Firefly, then with the P4 renderer, and both gave me the same "out of memory, reduce texture size, blah, blah, blah" error message (which I haven't seen once in P7), and ultimately failed to render the scene.

And while having Firefly using both threads on my processor slows everything else down, it does reduce overall render time, so I feel the trade-off is worth it.

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If you're joking that's just cruel, but if you're being sarcastic, that's even worse.