Hi, with Poser 7, I can render larger files than before: for instance I just rendered a 306 mg pz3 file without it crashing, however, it is slower than Poser 6.  On the other hand I can now reduce the min bias of my depth mapped shadows to .1... much improving them to the point where they're almost as accurate as ray traced ones.  Poser 7 now loads real hdri files with great results and the fast scatter is beautiful and fast in rendering.  You can also do 'instances' of objects, ie, copy loaded objects directly and place them where you want.  I say 'instances' because Vue 6 seems to only import the first and original object, at least for me, which makes me think they might be treated that way.

I've read some have had problems installing P7 in Vista, however, I'm running P7 in Vista with no problems and my sys configuration is low tech....no fancy tweaks. I have a dual core, first generation and render Poser files as a separate process using two threads and all seems fine.

Hope this helps,
regards...