Thank you all for your replies.

I do have much better hardware now, and even tried installing poser 7 on it, but the fact that it was single core meant that it still ran very slow.

 

I am saddened to hear that the hair has not been fixed, I would think they'd spend some time on that.  You don't know how many times I left a 200 frame animation running hair and cloth updates all night , and then two days for a high quality render just to find that the arms and boobs popped right through the cloth and the hair "scrunched" at around frame 30.

It's quite frustrating when you have 4 days setting up and 3 days rendering and your animation is crap when you're done.

For me this is a hobby, I am not making money at it.

I think based on what I have seen here I will not upgrade and give it another try, as some of the fundamental things I want to do seem to still be - if not unworkable - at least problematic.

Maybe after I retire and have nothing but time on my hands.