I've just read in the PP2014 manual that the Poser application and the Firefly render engine use the CPU. It would seem then that upgrading the GPU to obtain faster or more comprehensive Poser renders is a pointless exercise. The Firefly render engine simply doesn't use the graphics card. Investing in a more powerful CPU and more RAM memory would be the wiser, more effective choice. Am I misinterpreting the matter? Or can a new graphics card make any material contribution to making better use of PP2014?

Firefly only uses CPU, a new graphics card will not speed up the render process.

I suppose you think I'm a dunce, validating the obvious.

You asked if you're misinterpreting the matter.

Poser 11 Pro Superfly has GPU rendering option but the new Turing line of GPU are not support at this moment.

An (expensive) alternative would be to use Octane Render with face_off's plug-in for PP2014 and a suitable Nvidia card. It would get you a very fast physically-based GPU render engine with instancing among other useful features right in PP2014. The drawback is card + Octane + plug-in = not cheap :D

@hflam, @caisson. Thanks for your notes. Octane is much too costly, given my modest means. I think I'll safe up for a new CPU and maybe some RAM memory.

contedesfees posted at 4:39PM Sun, 11 August 2019 - #4359123

@hflam, @caisson. Thanks for your notes. Octane is much too costly, given my modest means. I think I'll safe up for a new CPU and maybe some RAM memory.

Alternatively, and less costly if you already intend to upgrade your GPU anyway, you could upgrade Poser to version 11 and render in Superfly which comes with Poser anyway.

@Afrodite-Ohki - A good suggestion, something to think about.

If that's what you wanna do, keep in mind that Poser 11's Superfly only does GPU rendering on an Nvidia card that's not the new Turing line.

@Afrodite-Ohki - Taking all the above into consideration, I think I'll be upgrading my CPU and contenting myself with PP2014 for the time being. I might add some RAM as well if it's not too costly.

contedesfees posted at 7:39PM Sun, 11 August 2019 - #4359159

@Afrodite-Ohki - Taking all the above into consideration, I think I'll be upgrading my CPU and contenting myself with PP2014 for the time being. I might add some RAM as well if it's not too costly.

They'll suit you well for various things. Personally I love many things that are exclusive to P11, but if PP2014 does what you need, a better CPU and some RAM will be useful for many things. And then it can buy you time for a future version of Poser that might support Turing cards.

Sure. You don't need a fancy GPU to render in Firefly. If the plan is to stick with Firefly then upgrade your CPU to have as many cores as you can afford and stuff the machine with RAM. OTOH you are missing out on some great rendering capabilities of Superfly.