Hi all

I'm thinking of upgrading my current poser 7 to either 8 or pro 2010 and was wondering if any of you could offer an opinion on their relative strengths? I'm really only interested in render speed and quality/options on a single pc.

My basic pc specs are: windows 7 64 bit, intel i5 processor (4 cores, but no hyperthreading) and 8GB ram. Typically my poser pz3 files average around 200-300mb.

I guess one of my main questions is how much advantage would I see making use of poser pro's 64bit rendering engine over P8? (and also both to my current p7)

Any thoughts would be very much appreciated!

thanks

Since you're on 64bit OS, you should use Poser Pro 2010. It's stable, it's rendering much faster than P7 (more than 100%) and a bit faster than P8 (10-30%). Question is: why do you even consider a 32 bit P8 if you can get a 64 bit Poser Pro 2010. Also read the forum, the question was already answered a few times before with more detailed information.

On a 64bit Windows system PP2010 adds a 64bit address space for Poser itself and for Firefly, allowing you to have larger scenes. It also adds background rendering which allows you to continue working on a scene while it is rendering. For smaller scenes it will not render faster, for larger ones it probably does (with 8GB memory).
PP2010 also adds Gamma correction for better control over image output as well as optional layers which are useful for postwork and it allows you to save in HDRI format.

For the other improvements of PP2010 over P8 look at http://poser.smithmicro.com/comparison.html

many thanks for the very helpful replies!

I guess the main reason for considering P8 is simply the price ($99 upgrade vs $199 sidegrade). I've also come across some slightly conflicing info in the forum, with some suggesting that pro might actually be slightly slower than p8 for smaller scenes. Anyway thanks again - the replies are really helpful!