The bottom line is I'm pretty annoyed with my Poser 7 experience. I rolled back to Poser 6 which is a little faster, but I've more or less spent 5 hours simply trying to get a character posed and dressed.

I don't recall Poser being so slow before where if I simply click on the frame dial, it goes into a long "not responding" period. These moments can last upwards of two minutes, even though the dial doesn't actually change frame; same goes for clicking on menu items or if the mouse moves over the body of a figure. It's pretty random, however. There are times in 6 and 7 where I can pull the guide from frame 1 to 30 in real time, then others where it's painfully slow to step through. I've tried running with OpenGL and Scree3D; both are very slow, even when just working with posing the figure.

I am using an ATI x1300xt PCI card which I know isn't the best, but it should do the job with 2 gigs of memory on a AMD 64x2 2gig processor-type machine.

I'm looking for alternative programs to use with or instead of Poser. I like that I can morph faces in the face room, but if I close the project and re-open it, the morphs stay but when going back to the face room, they are not retained. Ideally, I would like to morph my figures in Poser, then pose and clothe them in another program.

I've read Vue can pose and render scenes effectively, but can I use it to also dress figures with custom clothing? Daz Studio also runs very fast on my machine though I've never been able to effectively pose a character. I have over 100 scenes to render so I'm looking for something that I can use to pose, dress, then render as quickly as possible.

Let me know if I can provide any more information and all helpful suggestions on how to speed up Poser are welcome, but I'm pretty frustrated with the time it takes for it to even load from one "room" to another at this point. My current problem is clothing falling off for some reason. sigh

Thanks

How many levels of undo do you have set in your preferences? If your figure contains a gazillion magnets as many of them do now then that puts a strain on the system as it attempts to keep up with all the changes.

If your undo's are still set to the default 100 (?) you may want to trim them back to two or three.

That was the first thing I tuned down. It's currently set to 10. I'll try it at 3.

Vue in this case won't help.  You can't add clothes etc. to the figure in Vue, it has to be done in Poser.  You can repose in Vue but it requires huge amounts of RAM to do it.

Vue is normally used to render poser scenes because it's render engine is much superior to Firefly and it has such things as real global illumination/radiosity

My response time picked up a little by switching from OpenGL to ScreeD.

Carrara and DaZStudio are about the only things that can use Poser stuff...carrara is quite fast for me , but Poser is quite fast for me as well.

If changing the display render tweaks teh speed you may have to get a new video card or update yours?

2/20/08

I defraged my disk, and that helped a little.

LMK

carrara accesses poser runtimes and cr2 files, e.g. clothing.  the poser renderer is
rather slow and primitive by comparison IMVHO, and produces bad renders by default.

Carrara and DAZ don't have a way to use Poser's Materials, not even the basic application of a texture to a figure.