marciz posted at 7:31PM Mon, 24 July 2017 - #4310644

Say, LuxXeon, to change the subject just a little; when I use Poser 11's 'Superfly' renderer, it uses up 90-95% of my cpu. And that's for a LOW resolution image! As you may recall, I posted my computer's specs here. Pretty sure it's using CPU, not GPU. Not sure if it's using all 4 cores or maybe there's an adjustment to tell it to use more, if it's only using, say, one. I suppose I should get around to studying the manual...

As to another card, sounds like I'd be better off with new gear...

Well, that's why I'd suggest buying new or, if you do buy used, go with an older generation card which would be less likely to have been used for mining. Anything under a Nvidia GTX 9x generation should be ok. The miners are using mostly newer gen cards. I don't know anything about the Superfly engine in Poser specifically, but I have heard that it is based on the Cycles engine in Blender. This being the case, I'm sure that it is using all the available cores for rendering unless it's specified otherwise. Cycles contain settings in which you can specify how many threads you want the render engine to use, but it will always try to use all cores.

You can possibly get an overview if the renderer is using all cores by keeping an eye on the CPU resource monitor in Windows 10 (assuming you have Win 10). It will tell you all the processes running on your system, and also the number of threads and cores each process is using in real time. This might give you a summary idea. Open the Task Manager, go to Performance, then click "Open Resource Monitor" at the bottom of the dialogue box. Then go to the CPU tab. You'll see a column for Threads and CPU.

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