Quote - I was so upset when P7 came out, I bought the machine with vista just for P7 and once installed it wasn’t compatible. It will make turn off features on vista and the application  was working poorly. I was very disappointed, even thou the renders...*when i was able to render...the renders where faster. I'm been suffering a lot with P7.



Now, does PP...works well with vista, 32bit...not 64...just the regular 32. Please somebody tell me...because I’m tired of using my P7...with so many bugs and incompatibilities.

PP works fine for me on Vista, but so does Poser 7. It may not be Vista, itself, that is the issue. Rather, there are some issues with 3d graphics cards having buggy OpenGL drivers. Are you using the OpenGL preview? Try using software-only preview (SreeD I think its called). I get frequent crashes when I use OpenGL, both PP and P7, so I don't use the OpenGL mode. Even if I do use it, it isn't nearly as fast as the software-only preview, at least on my machine. Trying to rotate figures or move body parts causes all kinds of stutter and delay.

And before anybody suggests I upgrade my card or get a newer driver, I have an NVidia GeForce 8800 GT which is one of the best cards in existence, certainly the best for under $300, and I have the latest drivers.

I am able to run Crysis, Assassin's Creed, and Flight Simulator X, all at the highest special effects settings with the largest textures and the most polygons the games offer, and at 1900x1200 resolution!!!! OpenGL sucks. DirectX 10 is the way to go. Poser should use that.

By the way, the real-time graphics in Crysis are incredible. I often have visible to me upwards of 500 trees and bushes, each with hundreds, even thousands, of leaves and branches, and they're constantly moving with the wind. On top of that, there are hundreds of fishes swimming in the water, the waves move realistic around the patrol boats, I'm driving a Hummer and shooting a gigantic machine gun, stuff is blowing up, flames and smoke are everywhere, oil is pouring from drums I've shot, and there are over 20 enemy soldiers trying to get to me, and every one moves like a real person and they look better than most Poser portraits.

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