raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 ยท 1706 posts
lkendall posted Tue, 28 July 2009 at 1:08 AM
I first programmed computers in high school using jumpers (wires), gates, and Boolean logic. This was about the time that integrated circuits became available. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2K of memory. I bought a 16K memory-pack for it, and the salesman laughed at me. He said no one would ever write a program for a home computer that would need 16K of memory.
Now I have a 64-bit computer with Vista 64-bit OS, and 4Gigs of memory. I bought Poser Pro entirely for the 64-bit rendering engine (which was not what made it a "Pro" program). The Firefly renderer of Poser 7 on this machine would terminate (often crashing Poser) at about 1.75Gigs of memory usage. Firefly 64-bit does not even slow down when it reaches 2.5Gigs of memory usage.
Poser 8 with only a 32-bit version of Firefly would be like going back to a 2K T/S 1000 without the 16K memory-pack. The features and content not withstanding, this is less than Smith Micro can offer its users, seeing that the code for 64-bit rendering (including the ability to render on legacy 32-bit machines) has already been written. Unless there is a ridiculously cheap side-grade price from Poser Pro, I will have to join the growing number of Poser users who will not buy Poser 8.
LMK
Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.