whoa! (not shouting, just trying to be clear) 

I AM NOW USING :   A 64 BIT WIN7 OS, WITH 64 GIGS OF RAM ON BOARD, AND MY VIDEO CARD IS FOR GRAPHICS WITH 4 GIGS ON BOARD IT.

I AM TRYING TO RUN POSER 9 ON THIS OS AND USE THE FULL 4 GIGS IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO.

I AM DYSLEXIC! So much of the math or equations of this discussion just don't "compute" for my brain...BUT I GATHER THIS:

that poser 9 is LLA already? How do we know this?

that check marking the box for Separate Process will help a great deal, and I did do that. My windows FIREWALL came up and asked if I wanted to allow PUBLIC OR PRIVATE Networking?!?! Scared me...but having only ONE MACHINE (connected to the internet) I chose Private.  I assume it was just Poser wanting to USE all 8 "lanes" that my quad gives me. (again: Intel i7 quad) and it saw this as "networking"?! My friend has the same CPU.

and that leaving my default bucket size at 32 is actually better? Poser 9 does NOT change the bucket size when it maxes out on memory! I have watched it for years on my old win7, and also now on test renders on my new OS. The render "square" does not change size!  I had to manually lower it to 16 in trying to help my memory (before I had check marked that box... I have to re-test again now that I have.  (poser 7 DID automatically change the bucket size).

I have actually been testing two render scenarios - one is "me" - I normally choose 72 dpi and about 2500xwhatever.  My friend wants to render PRINT SIZE art, and she chooses 300 dpi and 4000xwhatever. The LATTER just would not fully render one V4, with character texture and clothes in a 111 mb pz3...I kept trying smaller and smaller "area renders" for that.

MY preferred size of 72 dpi and DEFAULT window (screen size which is for me 1680x1050 and 125% zoom on my 22 inch flat screen) size rendered in ONE PASS (and this same pz3 would not render AT ALL on my old 32 bit!)  But when I tried to raise the default render picture size to 2500xwhatever AGAIN this "small" size would not render in one full pass.  :(   oh and I was using easy to render Fabi hair and very little clothing....

So. I just hope check marking that box makes life a LITTLE "faster"... and again, assuming that I am NOT supposed to use the LLA program.

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!! I am trying to learn this...and of course very anxious for the day I come back here to ask how to set up Poser 2014 to do it's best! :))  But I spent so much on the machine, I have to wait for a sale.

Lyne

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!