Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 7 the resorce hog. What kind of pc do you need for this program?

tez12 opened this issue on Dec 23, 2006 ยท 34 posts


svdl posted Fri, 29 December 2006 at 7:08 AM

There is one aspect in which Poser 7 outshines every earlier version: its ability to render really complex scenes.
I found out that the FFRender process can use more than 2 GB of address space. While it's still a 32bit program, it has used up to 2.5 GB on my WinXP64 rig while rendering a scene that had P5 and P6 choking with OOM errors - even at the lowest render quality settings.
Fast rendering? Depends on the machine and the settings. See the Poser 7 benchmark thread. In general, P7 renders faster when using Firefly.

I don't use Poser that often for final renders. Most of my scenes are VERY big and complicated (easily 20 human figures, plus lots and lots of environment props) so I render in Vue 6 Infinite 64 bit.
Does Vue have a fast render engine compared to the big guns like 3DS Max? I don't know. What I do know is that I have been able to render over 10 billion polygons in Vue, with over a hundred hires (2000x2000 and more) textures, where Max (I have 6.01, without additional render plugins) flunked out at less than a million, with less than a dozen of these same textures.

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