I read in the pdf manual that if I had dual core, I could use 4 threads. This was great, it sped up render time greatly. I produced an image and posted it at Deviant Art. I restarted my computer and tried another older pz3 file this time using IDL.  After more than an hour and almost at the finish of precalculation, my screen darkened suddenly. I stopped the render. Closed Poser 8, then tried to shut off the computer. It hung up and wouldn't shut down. I unplugged my laptop but then it was still going on battery and still wouldn't shut down. I called a friend and he told me to pull the laptop's battery out. I did, waited a little bit, put the battery back in and booted and thankfully my computer was fine. I thought there for a little bit that Poser 8 had crashed my computer. I guess that I'm going to have to adjust back to two threads and await the serial update of P8.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

Weapons of choice:

Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8