Starkdog opened this issue on Jul 11, 2008 · 8 posts
arcebus posted Sat, 12 July 2008 at 4:51 PM
XP is still supported, but 32 and 64 - and getting XPx64 is one of the best ideas I've ever had. Drive all, including my 11 years old Agfa Horizon scanner.
Poser7 Pro (it's not 7.5, it's 7.2, means, we will have three more updates at 198 USD each until we reach 7.5 ;-}} - runs flawlessly under XPx64 with exciting speed (compared to P7 under 32bit).
I'm running 4 machines with (almost) identical data at this point: XPx64, 8GB Ram, a WesternDigital Raptor as system disk (with P7P & the runtime on it, speeds things up a little, too) and between two and six 500 GB cheap HDDs, all on MSI boards with ATI Radeon 3850/1GB. What differs is the CPU frequency - two of the machine run at 3,2something GHz, one at 3,06 and one onyl at 2,9something - overclocking capabilities change form CPU to CPU.
One machine has P7.2 installed, the others just the render engine (which doesn't seem to use all cores, but the 8GB ramm accessible under x64 do help.
And it is such fun watching firefly rendering in background and actually USING 4 cores...
One could feel like a professional....