it renders faster, doesn't do strange things to the image refresh, and best of all, it seems to know how to use the memory cache correctly. i can render full production mode in firefly with every option checked and get a final image in poser 4 time. (well.... faster than before, at least. but firefly draft mode renders in poser 4 time.) no changes to memory, video, or OS. that's good news, non?

Yea, my patched-P5 is working much better. A lot of people are still having problems, though.

Out of curiosity, did you dl the full patch or the two parts? And what OS are you running?

mine is much better too and without any probs. Os: win xp home

I d/l the patches separately. Win2kPro.

Does anybody have a patch

patch works fine here ... Win2KPro Chris

Having no problems, full patch, xp home

I wasn't having any real problems before the patch except the transmapped hair stuff (I didn't notice it because I don't do complex renders in Poser). After the patch it is definately faster.

no major problems with the unpatched version, like soulhuntre the transmapped hair had me stumped but since the patch no problems at all :) One Happy Bunny here :)

Poser 4.03 render 5mins 13secs

pre SR1

Poser 5 draft render 8min 10secs

Poser 5 Production render 26mins 37 seconds

Post SR1

Poser 5 draft render 4mins 32 secs

poser 5 production render 6 mins 32

Snappier around the rooms too!

To give the beastie a work out I used

Victoria 2 with full size (4000x4000) SteffyZ Gaia texture)

PWFW Castle Entrance Scene and Viccy evening dress

Resolution much reduced for upload.

I am running a bog standard AMD 1.2Ghz with 512 PC133 memory

Win2kPro SR2 and latest ATI Radeon drivers

Its works... what more can I say

One Delighted Narsil

I do not understand why P5 need to add ojects and some other garbages on each frame in animation mode, maybe it is bug that CL need to fix and clean up. Can you please compare the speed on p3/p4 and p5? Waldoo

Worked OK pre patch, only played around learing the new rooms. Workes even better post patch. Downloaded full patch for a P4 1.6 GHz XP home system. Mouse scroll works, YES! Does seem snappier. Peggy

I installed the utility only upgrade on my P5 crashed completely. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling just to get the original P4 to work. Upon executing the Poser 5 file, my screen went black and I got this Windows error: Error: 0E: 018F: BFF6C172 When I hit Ctrl,Alt,Del to restart, I got a second error: Error: OE: 0028: C002F972 Had to turn the PC off and try again. I'm running WindowsME (against my will). Has anyone else had this problem? I e-mailed the bugs section listed in the update info. Meanwhile, I'll dream about well-rendered fire fly hair.

pigfish there is a patch for win98/ME users on the CL download - did you install it - its a .vxd device driver PaulC

The OE: 0028 is addressed at the ms knowledge base. I ran through that on ME last year until I learned that Easy CD Creator had to be uninstalled and ME rerun from a windows prompt. Haven't had it since.

hello, EricofSD. i downloaded the patch in two parts. i'm running win 2000 w/512MB RAM on a dell optiplex.

Yep I got on ok with the two (seperate) patches _I'm on XP Home. No major problems pre upgrade but agree, it seems to render a tad quicker. (tho start up seems slower to me) However the content upgrade still hasn't sorted the full body morphs in Don's L upper chest. Only his R pec seems to work (amongst others)