Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Running Poser on a Laptop

RainbowGypsy opened this issue on Jul 27, 2007 · 25 posts


deddard posted Fri, 27 July 2007 at 3:29 AM

Using Poser 7 on an Acer C300 (TABLET pc)
Processor is 1.2GHz, with 1.25 GB of DDR RAM, about 3 years old.
Poser runs ok, rendering takes some time, but I tend to leave it alone and do other things whilst it plays around with that.

If I were to get a new Laptop for this sort of thing, I'd make sure that it came with oodles of RAM, fast SATA disks and a replaceable graphics card (check out 3D magazine this month - it's got some interesting stuff on this)

Make sure that any new laptop has the RAM configured correctly - Acers (like many others) tend to fill all the RAM slots with SODIMMs so that one of them needs to be replaced if you want to upgrade memory.

Mine came with 2 x 256MB of RAM originally, so when I wanted to upgrade to 1GB, I had to remove one SODIMM and put in a 1GB card, taking it up to 1.25GB, instead of just adding a 512MB card if the manufacturers had seen fit to include a single 512MB SODIMM instead of 2 256 modules.

Edit.... Do NOT, EVER get a tablet PC if you want things to run smoothly.  The extra software eats memory like no-ones business.
Oh, and as mentioned above, don't touch Vista with a 10 foot pole.  XP Pro is the way to go