Something I've realised just lately is that sims tend to run much more quickly under certain circumstances, one being in a fresh load of Poser.

Also the dynamics are far smoother and quicker if the hair strands (certainly within groups) are not tangled or touching each other at the start of a sim. This is easier said than done if you've styled the hair extensively to start with.

With long hair I've been using fewer verts per hair (20 or 30) for the sim, baking them with Cages script and then increasing the verts. This probably isn't of use to animators unless it can be automated to bake each frame (not even sure if that's possible).

 

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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