Hey Don, you might find this interesting.
First off, I set Poser pro up as you suggested. I've messed with all that before with Poser 7, but not yet with Poser Pro. Seems like it might be a little faster. Anyway, I've always used hardware accumulation.
But anyway, what's interesting is then I opened up the Nvidia Control Panel and under Manage 3D Settings I added Poser pro to the list. I didn't change anything, just left it all at default settings. I was just curious to see if anything would change.
When I opened Poser back up and loaded a figure, it all seems quite a bit faster now, like maybe by adding it to the list it turned something on... who knows, but it's stable and much faster. An old scene I had which guaranteed an insta-crash every time, loaded just fine.
Might want to give that a try.

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It will never use DirectDraw because it's not available (nor ever will be) on any platform but Windows.

Oh, right, the whole Mac thing.
Not only that, but they would have to license it from Microsoft.
Then again, they could always have it as an option, wouldn't have to be one or the other. 3ds max allows you to change between DX and OGL, for example, and so does Deep Exploration.
it's a nice thought though - DD is alot faster and more versatile than OpenGL. Would be nice though to get the OGL people off their arses and do some developing. ;-)