Quote - Well, the new Poser 7 sr3 release updates poser 7, so what you see in it is the same as Poser pro now.. BUT the downside is all your old P7 stuff needs to be updated.

As long as SR3 is that slow I'm not going to use it. I made some quick benchmarks.

a) Intel Q6600 Vista 64bit  8gb ram
b) Intel Q6600 Vista 32bit 4gb ram

Test Scene from http://renderfred.free.fr/p7benchmark.html using all 4 Cores

                                   poser process / seperate process
Poser 7 (SR2)          59 sec                  90 sec
Poser 7 (SR3)         180 sec                196 sec
Poser Pro  (SR1)     177 sec                50 sec  / 47 sec (64bit)

(only measured the actual rendering time not the loading times)
Those differences are more or less the same on other rendering jobs.
If I find the time I'll test SR3 on an AMD CPU.

Anyone made similar experiences ?