Quote - 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.

With due respect, if you expect high end results, perhaps you should be paying for high end products. For what it costs, Poser does a reasonable and great job. Could it be better? No doubt, and it is constantly improving while still staying affordable.

And no offense, but why would you run a 200 frame high quality animation  for two days without running a preview first to make sure everything was to your liking? I've owned Poser since version 2 and I've yet to run a full quality animation for that very reason. Why waste the time? I learned that lesson from Bryce 3D.

I'm definitely in hobby mode with Poser, but there are some great deals out there for being able to afford Poser 9 or even 10, both of which are leaps and bounds over Poser 7. My suggestion is that before you pass final judgement you do a little actual testing and put Poser Pro 2010 0r 2014 on your much better hardware and see how that works out for you. Is it going to be perfect? I suspect not, but it should at least get you closer to the ballpark than you are right now.