Also, try rendering in a seperate process. I'm not sure if Poser 7 has a 64 bit render engine, but I know Poser 7 Pro does, but it only takes advantage of it if rendering in a seperate process (as the Poser program itself is 32 bit).  This caused some issues on my Intel Quad core similar to what you are describing.

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