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Subject: Poser5 needs

wayneout opened this issue on Jul 28, 2002 · 4 posts
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wayneout ( ) posted Sun, 28 July 2002 at 6:53 PM · edited Fri, 06 September 2024 at 2:23 AM

Hello, I am not big on computer requirements. I read that Poser5 will probably need quite a bit of computer power. Alas, I have a older model Dell, (two years old) It is 1 gig speed, 256 ram and Pentium three. Checking the upgrade site at Dell, it seems the only real important I can upgrade to is 512 ram. I can go to 80 storage but I have 60 and have only used about 18. Do you think it would be wise to go to 512 ram or will the 256 work. I don't think it would be hard to put the other chip in there but with me anything is a adventure. Thanks, Bill Conn

bushi ( ) posted Sun, 28 July 2002 at 7:38 PM

Yes, one of the messages in kupa's P5 sneek-peek thread said that the more memory the better. From the description of your PC, it looks like P5 should run fine. The extra ram will help a lot when working with the new hair additions and the new rendering engine. BTW if you're not on XP or Win2000, that might be a good place to look at doing an upgrade.

smooh ( ) posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 7:11 AM

Well i have a 500mhz pentium with 256mb of ram if P5 wont run on yours i doubt i have much chance.. Whatya think of my chances smooh heres hoping

stewer ( ) posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 1:37 PM

This is no official word, but as far as I can see it, 500MHz and 256 MB should be sufficient to run Poser 5. It will probably slow down in extremely "hairy" situations. ;-)
Do yourself a favour, don't worry about the Poser 5 requirements now. You will mostly get unbased speculation instead of facts anyway. Let's talk about Poser 5 when it's out, OK?
"the more memory the better" is a universal rule of thumb and applies for almost every program out there (except Win98 that doesn't know how to handle 1 GB RAM), not only Poser.

Stefan

As always, everything written above is purely my personal opnion.

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