Quote - P8 seems to make more demands on the processor(s). I can leave P7 rendering (on Tiger) and work in Photoshop, but when rendering in P8 (on Leopard) other applications including Photoshop are sluggish. Checked Activity Monitor and P8 grabs as much as it can.

While technically this is a GOOD thing, I understand what you're saying, that it makes it a lot less convenient to try to multi-task and do other things while a render is going.  On the PC there is a workaround for this, in that you can make a custom shortcut that will run an application at lower priority - this doesn't make it run slower, it just makes the operating system interrupt the render briefly when you need something else done, like tasks in another application.  Working in Photoshop is still a bit sluggish, but it's doable.  I don't know about Macintosh, but maybe there is a way to do the same there.  Maybe they'll add this as a feature that can be set within Poser in the near future.

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