softcris -

I wouldn't say I'm fed up with SM, but I am tired of Poser 8 being a drag.  I think they'll fix it, eventually.  I hope....

I bought P8 for the cross-body part morph brush (which I can't use, as it jumps) and for the new joint options (which I haven't tried yet and which don't look as exciting as I'd hoped, now that I see the implementation).  So going back to P7 makes sense, for now, at least.

JWFokker -

Actually, the rendering crashes have stopped.  I had an earlier thread about them, but they were resolved by SR 2.1.

I rarely use many figures or construct complex scenes, and I tend toward small textures (rarely over 1500 square).  I still construct scenes which are about as complex as those I made in Poser 5 on a Windows ME Compaq with 512 MB RAM.  Poser 7 has no trouble with what I do.  And, for that matter, most of what I do is build figures and objects, because once they're built, posing them usually frustrates me due to bad joints.  (Antonia and Brad may change that....)

When Poser 8 is rendering, I show 90% to 100% CPU usage, even with one figure without props or environment.  Poser tends to use about 30% to 40% of my available RAM, in scenes I've tested.  Poser 7 doesn't require as much for the same things, but I don't recall what P7 uses.

The hard drive grinding/thrashing is apparently, from what Google brings up, a commonplace complaint with Vista(?).  I've had the grinding since I started using this Vista system, whenever Windows begins running some (generally unwanted) process in the background.  What's unusual here is that using Poser 8 seems to result in unidentified grinding.  How do I learn about my swap space usage?

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.