loaded reference figure and scene

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