Got another question for Poser 8. Since I use the parameter dials for most of my figure tweeking, its no doubt annoying that using the dials is about as slow as it can get. When I go to spin the dials, it turns into one long delay before I get any results. Is there a way to speed this process up? I have no trouble in Poser Pro Pack with this and I'm hoping it may be a simple fix. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium with an Intel Core 2 1.87GHz and 2 gigs of RAM with a dual monitor display. Thanks for any help.

Poser Pro Pack was a long time ago, those modles were not so hig-res as in poser 8,so it can display as soon as you spin.

Modles in poser 8 may be 3 or 4 times more polygons than in poser pro pack, so if you want to make it fast,you can try pjz99's method or  you may need a more powerful computer.

I haven't used the dials - as dials - in a long time.  IMO it's simpler to type the values in rather than faffing around with the dial.

@ triangle 2010.  Not necessarily.  V3 worked in Pro Pack and - as was mentioned in another thread - has a higher poly count than V4.  I agree that high poly models will slow things down but that was also a problem in Pro Pack; it isn't exclusive to later versions of Poser.

Another thing that helps is closing arrows for morph groups you are not using.

Also I had this problem badly just the way you describe and it is virtually gone since I got a mac pro 12 core.  Although scrolling through the heirachy editor is still quite slow.

Love esther

Another thing you can do and which has not been mentioned yet, is to set the Tracking to Bounding Boxes One (shift+ctrl+A). This does not help in all cases, but it makes the dials very fast  - even in very large scenes

wow, that sounds like a great tip!

Thanks for that tip wimvdb. It worked great. It's still a bit of a hastle switching between wireframe to Bounding Boxes but it sped up the process ten fold.

Sounds like its time for a system upgrade. What graphics card are you using for dual monitors? And at what resolution.

I'm using a Radeon x1950. The system is fine but I was thinking the display adapter might need to be swapped out. What do you think?

A dual core at 1.8 ghz and 2gb of ram really isn't fine for anything 3d. Its the reason your experiencing the lag your dealing with.

As for the graphics card, for dual monitors I would go no less than a radeon 4850.

It can be found used for around $60.

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4850/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4850-specifications.aspx

Here's the specs for what you have now.

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/other/Pages/x1950-specifications.aspx

Quote - A dual core at 1.8 ghz and 2gb of ram really isn't fine for anything 3d. Its the reason your experiencing the lag your dealing with...

I'm using a Core Duo 1.8b GHz notebook with 2GB and Radeon x1300 with Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 under XP Pro and the performance is quite adequate. 

I don't have any dial lag.  My viewport display is openGL.  My 3D settings on the ATI control panel are to use Aplication Settings for Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, Catalyst AI at Standard,  MipMap Detail at Quality, Wait for Vert. Refresh at 'Off, unless App. speciifes', and Adaptive Antialiasing and Triple Buffering are Off.

Good Luck...

PS, Make sure you have all of the service releases installed...  http://poser.smithmicro.com/updates.html

Trust me, I'm all for squeazing all you can out of what you've got. I ran Poser 7 on a single core 1.2ghz with 512mb of ram for quite a while, and I can tell you it was no less than painful at times.

Everyones idea of adequate or acceptable is different and Poser 8 nor Pro 2010 were intended to run the way they are meant to run on those systems.

Nothing worse than having your ideas and creativity being limited by your system.

There is one little trick I know for speeding up the Parameter dials. But as far as i know it can only be done for an individual dial.

Simply reset the Sensitivity setting on the dial. Be careful though. You can make it TOO sensitive. 

gosh wouldn't a general script that speeds them all up by however much we want be useful then!

Quote - gosh wouldn't a general script that speeds them all up by however much we want be useful then!

Problem is that sensitivity is different for each dial. I don't think there is a universal setting.

I'm not so sure. iN the days when the dials were slow they all seemed to be very very unuseably slow.