Quote - > Quote - ...so basically we are "written off" because those of us on limited budgets don't have the disposable income to buy a big ticket item like a new computer every couple of years.

Ok, let me get this right. You actually are upset that Daz will not cater to your OLD computer and to make this concession because you can't afford to buy a new computer??. You must be joking ;). I hope you don't mind if I say so, but that is beyond ridiculous. They're a business. They can't do that. And I completely understand that and I can't afford the newest version of either DS OR Poser. However, I don't feel so entitled that I expect them to make concessions just for people like poor little me. shakes head

Laurie

I think a more sensible point (rather than the specifics of a individual user's computer) that DAZ might address with us is the subject of resource utilization.   I'm blessed with a fast workstation and oodles of memory.  DAZ has made claim in the past (I thought) that it was more resource efficeint that Poser in several areas; a principle example being it's dynamic loading of morphs.   I have not found in my own testing a substantive different between Poser 9 and DS4 in terms of memory usage.   Your milage may vary, of course.  

However, I used inexpensive, older computers as render nodes that don't have oodles of memory and some are pretty dated.   Questions for DAZ:

• When will we see network rendering in DS4?  Not even the pro version of DS4 seems to support this common 3D feature.
• If DAZ plans to offer network rendering, will the requirements on the render nodes be equal to or less than DS4 Pro itself.  (The question is not as facetious as it might sound on first blush--more advanced node management software leverages virtual memory/disk techniques to allow render nodes to handle big renders, albeit more slowly, than high-end workstations.)

-K

 

[Almost 24 posts in 12 years!   I must be going for the record today.]