OK..... I'm quite a bit frustrated and yes...also pissed with trying to do animation with both Poser 7 and Vue 8  Esprit . I've been running a dual core laptop with 3 gigs of ram and I can't seem to get anything to run smoothly. Been thinking  for quite some time about going quad core with 64 bit and window's 7, (New PC), with 8 gigs of ram. My question is- (before shelling out the cash for such a system)- will it perform up to my expectations? Meaning will the system- A) not crash on me, and B) run animations smoothly in preview mode (at the very least).   If anybody has any experience with this type of system and applications- please respond in kind. Thanks for taking time to read this. BTW- I have read up and tried all the optimization tricks/ techniques to try to get the programs to rum better- with not a whole lot of luck.
JD

I'm not sure quite what you mean by running smoothly but I have a thought that may be tripping you up.  In Poser at least when you press the play button it does not play every frame by default.
There is a little tick box on teh bottom right I think which says "Skip Frames", if you turn this off it will play every frame.

If this isn't the problem I can only say that my system is Win7 64bit, with 6gb Ram and an NVidia 220GT, this runs everything I throw at it and more without a problem.  If your version of Poser is not 64bit you may not get all the benefits of a 64bit Windows.

I hope that helps.

John

It is also better to render your animation out as Image files. You can then put your sequenced image file together in a video editing software. VirtualDub is free. You can save to what ever vid file you want as long as you have that codec installed. K-light codecs are free also.

This also let you postwork all you want as well.

As Fugazi1968 points out. make sure you have skip frames unchecked.