Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: D/S vs Poser

rickking opened this issue on May 05, 2008 · 29 posts


aeilkema posted Wed, 07 May 2008 at 7:50 AM

I've got 2Gb of memory in my system, running WinXP. I've seen Poser using most of it, Poser will use the 1Gb if needed. I don't want that to happen of course, then Poser will not render anymore.

As long as Poser and D/S are 32 bit applications, they will never use all of the memory available in a system, I think they'll use 3Gb at the most, but the way D/s has been programmed (as I understand) it will use even less. That has nothing to do with 3D applications, it's the 32bit limitation. Poser Pro breaks that barrier somewhat by having added the 64bit rendering engine. If one has 6Gb in a system, you can build a scene that uses 3Gb of memory and still be able to render it, since the 64 bit rendering engine will address the 3Gb memory left in the system. Previous versions of Poser and D/S (at the moment) cannot do this, if your scene is too large and uses most of the physical memory in the system, the scene will not render anymore. Those problems are gone for people with Poser Pro & 64bit system.

The scene rendered in the image attached is much more demanding then the city and YES it uses over 90% of my systems physical memory. During rendering the available physical memory drops to 110Mb. No other apps running (just a firewall and virus protection). On my system Poser uses all of the available memory if I let it.

EDIT: The scene already has 4 6x6 Dystopia city blocks (just placed them differently) and all different ones, you used some of the same blocks twice. I could add the barriers easily, the 3 spaceships are much higer poly then the barriers. I've got a landscape in it and a background, but I do use 4 lights only. But adding more lights wouldn't matter too much anyway, it just takes more time to render.

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Food for thought.....
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