Hello everyone;

Can anyone give me advice for the best one to use with my 64 bit PC? What I mean is I plan to upgrade and would like to know which would be better.

I know Poser Pro is for 64 bit, but does Poser 8 actually have the same features?

i/e 64 bit support, faster rendering speed, etc

Thanks :)

Try to search ... is there a recent thread ...

Yeah thanks..I found one about it..seems they both have the good and the bad :)

But I don't think I will buy both at once.

Personally, I'd go for Poser 8. It's not 64-bit, but it renders a lot faster than Poser Pro: the FireFly renderer has been re-written and it's ton's better.

If you've read the other threads you'll know what features it has and also the problems that others have experienced. But hey! It works fine and dandy for me.

Thanks cs..I guess its like the past Posers..:)

They are evil or are a blessing..lol

Poser 8 will run on 64bit, but both the program executable and the render engine are 32bit.  It is a "clean slate" rebuild, utilizes multiple processor cores very well, and renders quickly.  It adds IDL.   It has a new GUI and library UI in particular.  The program startup is quicker than P7 or  Pro.
A fair percentage of people have reported bugs;  others, like myself, have not had problems.  Scan the forum for these issues.  SM is working on them for SR2.

Poser Pro's program executable is 32bit, but is has both 32bit and 64bit render engines.  Render in separate process (don't click the little camera-shaped render button) to engage the 64bit renderer.  It will run four threads.  The 64bit render engine allows for large pixel dimension renders of complex scenes with complicated materials.  PPro is stable and bug-free in my experience.

As I understand it, either program will be eligible for upgrade when Poser Pro 2010 is released.  I think it will fuse the clean slate leanness, multi-core utilization, new GUI system, and IDL of P8, with the 64bit render capacity of PPro.

For big scenes P8 crashes all the time here. No problem with small scenes.
Poser Pro runs big scenes fine and I guess it because of the 64bit rendering engine.

It depends what you're looking for. If you need Poser Pro features and want 64 bit rendering, I would suggest waiting for Poser Pro 2010. Poser 7 Pro, even on a 64 bit system, isn't as fast in rendering as Poser 8, but Poser Pro 2010 should be a lot faster. But also a lot more expensive. If you don't need any of the extra features Poser Pro offers, I would really recommend Poser 8, not Poser Pro.

Quote - For big scenes P8 crashes all the time here. No problem with small scenes.
Poser Pro runs big scenes fine and I guess it because of the 64bit rendering engine.

I had problems running big scenes as well, but since I've switched off the library and switched to SreeD instead of OpenGL, my P8 runs pretty stable, even with huge scenes. Switching one or both of them back on, seems to make P8 extremely unstable on my system.

On my PC the rendering engine crashes when the memory for the exe file hits 3.6GB. Seems like that's the limit for the 32bit engine - on my PC anyway. I have scenes that are twice as big as that and only Poser Pro can handle that.

Well so far it seems Poser 8 is getting more praise, than 7 Pro.

Which is a good thing I guess. Because upgrading to it will less expensive for me :)