Quote - Do you have a dual core or quadcore processor? Are you running a 64-bit operating system? Having either or both of those will significantly reduce render times when using the external renderer. To get the performance benefit from those features, you have to use the external renderer though, because the main Poser Pro executable is still a single threaded 32-bit application.

i have a dualcore pc with a radeon x1600 graphics card , 2 gb ram and an intel core 2 processor. i am currently thinking of either building a new pc (quadcore) but now reading this thread, am i right in saying that if - i buy poser pro, install windows xp pro 64 bit version , and maybe throw some extra ram on my computer that will work just as good for quicker rendering times?