"But make sure you have the latest drivers for your system, especially graphic display. That definitely helped me."

"And my OS and Poser 7 install were very fresh and uncluttered when I installed SR3. Don't know if that had anything to do with the good results or not, but just thought I'd mention it."

I did both of these and then some, and I have an off the shelf machine that I am sure is quite common.