Well, all I can tell you is opengl is only handled by your video card, not by your ram. If you switch to sreed, THEN its handled by your main onboard ram.

I noticed the video memory increase when I upgraded to my last videocard, so the memory setting for poser's preview IS addressing video card ram use.

The only posts here I've seen about poser 8, is how much better it manages ram use.. this is the first I've seen anywhere to the contrary.

Course you are also using an old OS that doesn't handle large amounts of ram properly as well... and if you upgraded, you'd find Vista pre gobbles even more of your ram.

Memory is cheap though.. all my systems here for 8 gb now. I think I bought 4 gig of ram for under $50 the last time I purchased it.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.