I gave up trying to get poser 10 to work correctly, as a 32 bit program it will only recognize a small amount of ram and a model, a back ground and floor of some sort is about all it can handle... Now in days past us poser users had to put up with render times of 24 hours or more for a 640x480 render which came out all cartoon looking...I have tried to goad Smith Micro into explaining why poser 10 is the way it is.. They just ignore me... I have asked them for advice on what kind of performance to expect from poser 10 and asked how to get it....no answer forth coming. Now if you have down loaded the update and you have installed it. then you need to share with me information about your computer for me to hopefully help you more.. As for preferences, they are set using preferences under edit... There are things you can do to help performance but I would need a lot more information... My suggestion though is look for a used copy of poser 2012 pro on Ebay, you can usually get it for about what you paid for poser 10....Best idea for preferences is open poser 10 set your preferences and then exit before doing any work at all, this saves your preferences....Hope I am of some help