Quote - > Quote - Right now I'm rendering in Poser 7 ... in a powerfull QuadCore... and Poser takes advantage of only 29% of the processors...it's taking about 30 min. to finished the full final render

Do you have your Render processes set us use multiple threads? (general preferences: render tab)  That is supposed to spread the load out to the other processors.

Poser 7 only divides the work of rendering once, at the start of the render; so if your scene has a bunch of complicated stuff in the top right corner (e.g.) then it will behave like this.  Three cores will drop to idle and 3/4 of your uber quad core processor will sit there and do nothing, while the remainder gimps along on one core until it finishes (which might be hours).  I talked to EF about this shortly after Poser 7 was released and they acknowledged it, and told me no change is planned there until "the next version of Poser", but I expect that will not include the upcoming "Pro" version - certainly it isn't enough to get me to buy it, even if it does make it in.

edit: and comparing to other renderers out there, none of the "big dogs" has such a stupid implementation of multiprocessing; if you are rendering in 4 threads/4 cores, and one finishes earlier, the work is re-divided immediately to keep all 4 cores busy, as much as is practical.

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