I have several issues I would like some help on. I know there are a million threads on this already about vista and poser 7 but most of them seem to be complaints rather then solutions.

The system I just purchased has a  AMD duel core processor, 1024 ddr  and a ATI Raedon graphics card so i figured my renders would be faster with poser 7 but seem to be slower. What should I have my thread setting at in the renders settings? Right now i have it set to 4 as the manual suggested.

Also I noticed alot of times after click on something in my poser scene there is a brief pause before I can do anything or it shows its selected, is this normal behavior for P7 or is a bug or could this be a Vista compatiblity issue?

Are there any patches for vista or poser 7 I need to fix some of these problems? what other problems should i expect with my system and poser 7? I do believe I have all the latest updated for vista so not sure what more I can do.

Also if some one can show me a screen shots of what render settings seem to work well on their system running vista with simlar specs as mine for me to try out and see if that fixes some problems that would help me trouble shoot some of my problems.

Sorry if this post is retorical(sp) but so far all i have read is complaints and not solutions :( and thats hasnt been very helpful to me. Anyways thanks for reading and help you may provide

Giving the renderer 4 threads is probably the most efficient choice if you have multiple cores.  Since the Firefly multithreading is rather braindead, it often happens that you have one or more threads finish before the last one finishes - it may not seem too intuitive, but if you have it set to 2 threads, one thread will inevitably finish early, leaving the processor 1/2 idle (one core doing absolutely nothing).

With 4 threads, each thread will be juggled between the two available cores.  It sounds like this will hurt your speed, and in fact it might in some situations, but for general use, you can have 1 or 2 threads complete early and still have the processor 100% busy (both cores).

The little delay you're experiencing when clicking on things might just be that you are running short on available RAM, so as you select things they need to be swapped into RAM so you can work with them.

No patches for poser yet as far as I know.  No opinion of Vista since I don't use it.

Render settings - what does "work well" mean to you?  what problems ar eyou having that are related to rendering?

well i didnt think ram would be an issue the system i have has 1024 ddr ram so i assume that is plenty to run my OS and poser, which is usually the case when im working in poser i usually dont have any other applications open except maybe sometimes a broswer window if im following a tutorial or using an image as a refrence or something like that.

As far as render issues, well it seems to crash alot for example it crashed on a simple scene of v3 with a dress on and 3 spot lights. Not a real intensive scene but i was just trying out how it works well on vista.(which if i had my choice i would of bought a system with xp but unfortunatly when i went to buy my new system they had already made the switch to all systems comming with vista).

Any how it crashed when i moved the auto slider in the render setting from draft to final. I guess the trouble im having is figuring out which programs are causing abnormal things to happen since both vista and poser 7 are new software both have bugs. But im a bit disappointed I waited a few months to purchase my upgrade for P7 and figured e-frontier would have some bugs worked out and be more prepared for Vista. But Maybe they are spending more time counting they numbers in their check book rather then invest some time to get on the problems right away.

But as far those issues I would just like to see what people have for settings that are running the program on Vista with similar system specs as me to help figure out which software is causing which bugs. Thats all for now :D

Which version of vista? Home basic only requires 512 of memory while Home Premium & above recommends at least a gig, just for the O/S. Also crashing issues are most likeley being caused by openGL problems between vista and graphics drivers. Not using an ATI, so can't be positive, but I had to download new drivers for the nvidia 6150 that came with my system then tweak and change the card settings using it's tools. Before doing that, P7 was giving me all kinds of issues in Vista, but works fine now.

CStrauss:  
I regret to tell you that, like bwldrd says, 1GB of memory is probably the minimum you can get by with comfortably with Vista.

Quote - Any how it crashed when i moved the auto slider in the render setting from draft to final.

Yep, that is very likely because Poser ran out of memory when setting up the render.  Note that even with a very large amount of memory, Poser 7 can still blow up and die, but if you have even 2GB you will probably have a lot better luck when trying to render.  If you can afford it, 4GB would be ideal - Poser 7 will be allowed to take 3GB of RAM, because it is a 32-bit application, and render speeds will be fastest and stability will be highest.