Hello. I hope someone can help my situation. Let me begin be describing my system. I have an I7 950 running on a X58 Sabertooth mobo, 16gb ram, a new MSI GTX560Ti 2gb video card, 300gb hybrid drive, windows 7 64 bit and Poser8 with updates. I just replaced my old GT220 video card with the new MSI GTX560Ti. My problem is that my preview screen, for lack of a better word, sucks when it comes to frame rates. If I have more than one character on the screen, I need to switch to fast mode for character manipulation or the motion is so choppy it makes accurate posing impossible. I've played with the render preview settings and yes, the open gl hardware is enabled. I've also tried numerous settings and combinations to clear up the problem. I can understand this condition with the old card, but this new card should easily handle the load. A very good friend of mine is running a similar system with less ram but the identical card and poser pro 2012. His preview is smooth as ever with a great frame rate...if you will. I have trouble believing that poser 8 and pro 2012 would have such a radical difference in the preview screen seeing as how both programs use the video GPU for this function. Any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks.

Please post a screen grab of your render>preview settings

Bill

My system is way less powerful than yours, and I get smooth results with

Poser 8, Screen window  and actual transparancy. 

Unfortunatly I do not see anything else different from mine (i5-750 ATI Radon) 

Try that, and if it does not work maybe someone else has suggestions.

Bill

Does it respond the same switching to SreeD?

Side note: with PP2012 I can use hardware shading, with P8 I can not, PP2012 has a much enhanced preview.

Bill

Just tried the suggested settings...no change. Sreed offered no improvement.

IIRC... there is a line in the Poser.ini file...

Open your Poser.ini file in a text editor (eg. Notepad)

Change:
PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING 0 
to
PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING 1

The Poser.ini file is located here (or some reasonable facsimile):
C: > Documents & Settings > Poser > Application Data > Poser 8 > Poser.ini

Also... Do you have all the service releases applied?

I have the latest I think...version 8.0.3.11793 , I applied your suggestion and it offered little if any noticable improvement. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm at a loss here.

I'm wondering if you have applications running in the background that are hogging system resources, and slowing things down.

No other applications running. My resource monitor shows 1% cpu usage and 14% of the available 16gb or ram being used.

     Those preview settings look quite moderate to me;  I wouldn't think they would be a problem, with your video card.  You might try setting the offscreen handling to scene window.

     For what it's worth, I frequently switch preview settings, using a quick/rough setting if the OpenGL/hardware shaded setting is reacting slowly, then switching back to get the best preview for a final check before rendering.

     Since your current project is reacting slowly, this won't be helpful, but for other scenes, if you're using tiled materials, or using procedurals, try engaging hardware shading;  this mode will display materials tiled (it helps you set scale and line up U,V offset) and show procedurals with scale, phase, and frequency.  It is the most demanding preview mode, so it will be the slowest.  But it's great for working up materials.

Thanks for all the suggestion, it's greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I'm still at a total loss with this issue. I've contacted Smith Micro and recieved no real solution either. I will continue to check this thread in hopes that someone has a solution. Thanks again.

comparing with my settings:

• I have Scene Window instead of PBuffer

• I have Enable hardware shading checked

• my Preview texture resolution is 512 (and should be1024, frankly)

and in General Preferences, Render tab I've Texture Caching set to 500Mb, should be more

Running PP2012 BTW, see my signature.

Good luck

Hi

I think you have something more basic then you Poser setup going on here.

My system is 2 years old and I get almost instantaneous refresh even with my setting at almost max, I even have texture res set to 4096.

The only thing I turn off is antialiasing.

I use Scene Window same as aRIBee.

Make sure your video drivers, memory config and things like that are all up to date.

Run CCleaner and defrag, (it can't hurt), I use Defraggler because you can just defrag files without doing the whole drive.  It makes a noticable difference and I do it almost every day. 

I don't have any real idea what's going on but I think something in you computer isn't quite right some place, I guess I can't be less specific then that.

Are you a gamer?  Do you get high frame rates in games? 

Mike

What bios number is on your motherboard?

That could be part of the problem.

In games and in 3D bench marks, the card scores excellently. My mobo bios is American Megatrends 0702, 11/16/10

There are more than a few updates for the bios on your mobo. And 702 does not appear on the list.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/SABERTOOTH_X58/#download

Tried the update...still no noticable change.