@rhia474 If you were seeing slow down, you wouldn't need to time it. It's so drastically, blatantly slower that you can't help but notice. Also, oddly, I'm experiencing the opposite of you. I have found that pops, figures, and saved scenes all seem to load faster now. Just my rendering is so slow that Poser is unusable at the moment.

@Gitterati3D What CPU do you use? I'm running an i7-8700 K with 32 GB of DDR4 RAM. Historically I found my CPU renders were just slightly slower than GPU rendering with the GTX 1080 Ti. So I converted to almost all GPU rendering, as I could also continue to use the system when GPU rendering. Whereas CPU rendering pins the CPU to 100%.

@seachnasaigh I also have 2 remote machines. One is a Dell R610 with 2 x Intel Xeon X5670 6-core processors and 64 GB of RAM. The other remote is just a crappy little Windows 10 box that only manages to put out 1 or 2 renders a week, but there's no reason not to use it. Obviously both of these remote machines do CPU rendering. They have also slowed down just as much, if not more, as my main machine.

@ironsoul Thanks!

@SamTherapy Same here. Nothing has changed on my machine or in the things I am using. It's just the version of Poser.

@caisson I didn't really think it was a global issue, as I hadn't seen any threads about it. But sometimes you just never know, so I needed to ask the community. As for my logs, you can see them below. The pertinent part is at the bottom. 68643 seconds rendering, and it was only done 12 out of 35 tiles. That is far more slow than my original estimate of three times slower. This is more along the lines of 10 to 20 times slower. Completely unusable.

@HartyBart I did make sure that "use existing preference files" was checked during the upgrade to 11.2. The most recent update though, uninstalled Poser completely and then re-installed it. I believe it still offered me that option though, and I still checked "use existing preference files".

As to what I meant about the progress bar, please refer to the following image:

Please take note of the "Sample 4131/10000" part of that picture. Prior to the update that 4131 number would jump by anywhere from 5 to 30 each time it moved, just depending on what part of the scene was being rendered. Backgrounds and walls would jump by like 30 each time, while hair would only move by 5 numbers at a time. So like 4131 would become 4136, then 4141, 4146, etc when doing very detailed hair models.

After the update, that number moves by 1's and 2's when rendering the least demanding part of the scene: backgrounds and simple objects. The progress bar reflects what I'm saying as far as my render speeds being inexplicably 10x slower or more. The reason I say, "It's different" is that simple, grey backgrounds shouldn't be "moving the dial" by 1's and 2's. That progress bar should be lightning fast on a simple grey background. So I don't know if the weird bar behavior is an indicator of what's wrong (that my card isn't rendering large chunks at a time like it should), or if it's merely reflecting the much slower rendering progress.

Please keep in mind that I have tried CPU renders both locally and on **two **separate remote machines, as well as a variety of different GPU rendering options. Everything I do on every machine is an order of magnitude slower. Again, so slow that the software is quite literally not usable. It takes days to render the simplest scene.

Here are the render settings that I am using. Some of you are going to look at them and wonder if I'm insane. That's fine. I know they aren't the best, but they the settings that I find work the best for me after weeks and weeks of experimenting when Poser Pro 11 was released.

If you have additional questions, then please let me know. If you have any suggestions of things to try, then please let me know also.