Quote - > 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.

Yep.

I still keep around (and use) a copy of D|S 3. If you scrounge enough online (for the free version, folks!), it is still out there for download. I'm almost willing to wager that you can get and keep a version 2.x out there as well. So far, aside from Genesis, it still works just fine for my uses.

Incidentally, even if you have an old machine, try getting more RAM for it - as much as the motherboard will stand. The stuff is (depending on type) cheap, plentiful, and easily-got. I paid a whopping $25 for 8GB (2x4GB) of DDR3 PC 10600 laptop RAM (from newegg.com), and so far it's run like a dream. Boosted the render times by around 15-20%, which is not a miracle, but definitely a visible improvement.

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...The stats of my rig are in my sig below.  I have basically maxed out the RAM, am running the latest updates of OpenGL DirectX and system drivers. The MB only supports DDR2 so there are no further RAM upgrades available. As it is a notebook there really isn't much more I can do to improve the situation outside of buying an entirely new machine (which is way out of my budget).

I've been using 3A (32 bit) but due to memory managment issues that were never fixed (more critical in 32 bit as there is a finite amount of RAM that can be allocated to any application) before the relase of ver.4, it has been an exercise in frustration to say the very least.  I also have all my older installers (back to ver.1.5) however much of the content created after 3.0 was released will not work in them.

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...forsaken daughter is watching you.

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