I for one will never go back or struggle with Poser animation for real movie rendering. I just did a test render in Studio Max. 500 frames in under two munutes. Simple walk scene. If I had done the same scene in Poser no matter what version, it would have taken me a week. What's the diff with each program? It was a breeze to animate in a 3D modelling program, Poser is by far the worst to animate in, too slow. Why struggle?

Rendering art with it is ok but for serious animators I still say get something better. You will see a huge diff. I did.

500 frames in Poser would have taken me 10 hours tops. Not with Studio Max. In no time at all I had a scene rendered.

So, it's not my machine afterall, just Poser being slow. I will never bang my head against the wall trying to animate with Poser ever again. ;)

Nor will I ever be fooled by it's slowness. I render speedily in other apps except Poser. I imported my Poser figs just fine in Max & rendered it out without freezing, lag or hangups.