Yes, I agree with Ironsoul - if you're getting a new PC for Vue then two extra sticks of motherboard RAM may be a good insurance against crashes. 16Gb rather than 8Gb. According to my research Vue may rarely touch the extra 8Gb, but when it does nudge into it for big scenes... it'll be that 'gotta have it moment' that may prevent a crash and lost autosaves. For instance, I can just about work with Cornucopia's new huge Green Canyon scene + Poser imports, on 8Gb with onboard graphics and wireframe preview. But I had two annoying crashes which I suspect might have been avoided by the OpenGL having access to 16Gb of RAM. Of course, if you're not loading vast natural landscapes with clouds and big ecosystems, then you may not need it. Someone doing architectural space-port / city / vehicle pictures probably wouldn't need an extra 8Gb of RAM. Same goes for those importing the stock 'three Poser characters in a room', but that sort of scene is probably best done in Poser + SuperFly anyway. Poser lets you work the artistic camera-framing of tight interiors much more easily than Vue does.

I guess the thing to do is get the new PC with the standard 8Gb RAM, but make sure the motherboard has the empty slot(s) needed to expand it to 16Gb if needed.

Good onboard graphics will still be needed for Vue's OpenGL preview and updating preview window, though. So it's not like you can just get the most piffling onboard graphics possible. If you can get the PC company to slot something good like a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6Gb slot-in graphics card, for an extra $300, then it's worth considering. A powerful graphics card will help power Vue's OpenGL windows + scene previews. But be prepared for an increased electric bill, a hotter PC, a required power-supply upgrade to power the card, plus possibly an annoying whirring noise from the card/PSU fans.

As for Poser, SuperFly is very nice, and a good graphics card will help with speed there. But even with onboard graphics you can get adequate results from a fast 4000 pixel preview render in SuperFly, reduced to 2000 pixels to take off most of the jaggies. That sort of approach would let you quickly render posed characters in a transparent-background PNG, to be dropped into the Vue render using Photoshop and blended in to the lighting scenario. Also, I assume you know that you can push Poser 11 files to Vue 2016 for quality rendering, very easily, and Vue knows how exactly to translate the textures nicely (Smith Micro and E-on have been working together for decades now). The advantage there is that a handful of online render farms are happy to see Vue files. As well as Pixelplow, also check out the garagefarm.net online render farm, who now offer Vue online rendering.

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