I have similar problems, the plain old fact is that Victoria, Michael, stephanie, etc are just plain HUGE compared to the default content. The bigger the library of content, the slower it processes everything. Check and adjust the following things:

render cache
texture size for preview (it's in the render settings, preview tab)
turn the undo levels down
I set the file search to shallow instead of deep. (I'm almost ready to turn it OFF)

when you installed the DAZ content, you did initialize and update them RIGHT? If you forget those two steps, you'll be in a world of hurt. It puts the update shortcut on your desktop btw.

Hope this helps, I use an older machine running XP myself so I know you pain. Poser 8 runs just fine with nearly 15 gigs of extra content, it just runs SLOW.

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