MartinW opened this issue on Apr 21, 2007 · 7 posts
pjz99 posted Sat, 21 April 2007 at 9:13 PM
I have the same basic setup, and in general Poser 7 is VERY stable. If you have 4GB or more you will be very very comfortable - Poser will only use 3GB of system memory but it's very nice compared to my old config of 1GB. It still occasionally crashes but these appear to be fairly small bugs rather than something systemic. Overall I'm really happy with it.
If you have multiple cores, rendering will use up to 4 cores at 100%, which is a good change - however there is not much intelligence to how the render is split up across multiple cores, basically the image is cute into 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 and assigned to a separate thread. When each of those threads completes, that processor core drops to idle and the remaining render work is not re-distributed. This is really annoying when you have some huge complex part in one corner, and 3 of your cores drop to nothing while the 1/4 of the image remaining take 18 hours to finish...