Quote - what are threads in poser? By the way BB, I have poser 7 and intel core2 duo processor, so it's a pretty good laptop.

In computer parlance, a "thread" is a single logical sequence of program execution, within a process. Each step is done one after the other. When you have multiple threads, then the computer executes these in parallel, so it appears that more than one program is working at the same time. Prior to multi-core CPUs, this was done by working on one thread for a little while, then switching to another thread. This switching happens thousands of times a second.

Now that we have dual-core and quad-core (and even some lucky people have 8-core) computers, we can actually and truly run these activiities simultaneously. 

When you have multiple CPU cores, its a good idea to run multiple threads, especially in a program like Poser when rendering. Otherwise, you leave a good chunk of your computer idle.

In Poser 7 and up, you can run the renderer in multiple threads. Edit/General Preferences[Render]Number of threads.

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