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I'm now the proud owner of the Poser 5 software but unfortunately my PC is a bit too slow for it to run as I would like it to.

I currently own a PIII 500 Mhz with 260 Mb RAM and a Matrox Millennium G400 graphics card. It runs on Windows 2000 with about 1GB allocated memory.

The best thing would be to buy a better PC all together but in the meantime, which graphics card do you think is the best one for running this software?

The G400 was a great card for running 3D software back in 1999 but let's face it... It's not 1999 anymore. :-)
I've thought about GeForce 4... but isn't that just for gamers?

Best regards..
Jacko of Shameworks.

Updating the graphics card won't do too much for Poser 5. Depending on your use of textures, lights and hair, adding RAM will be a better investment. Open the task manager while rendering and watch the memory values. If your computer starts swapping while rendering, more RAM will speed up rendering enormously. For speeding up the startup of Poser 5, don't use Don as default figure. Using a much simpler figure like the old school default guy will notably speed up loading.

your graphiccard will not speed up poser5 I would buy to more ram. Poser 5 needs ram,ram ram....

RAM! 750MB min or 1GB is even better.

save the money a new computer would cost and buy another program

I disagree with boblowery. I have been enjoying P5 immensly, and have had no problems with it at all. Before you ask, AMD Athlon 1.6 ghz, 384mb RAM. And, yes, I've done a lot with the hair and clothing.

I agree with Valandar. A lot of criticism floats around here about P5. It does need RAM and sure, there are things it could do that it doesn't, but I too am a proud owner of this software and I really like it! I have a 1.2 Athlon, with 768mb RAM using XP. If I were you, I'd add a modest amount of RAM now and save for a system upgrade to something like 1.8-2.2 Mhz.

Thanks guys! :-)

I agree wholeheartedly with boblowery. Save your money for Daz Studio! Petunia Daz Rules!! CL Drools!!

Ehh Hemm. It SHOULD run fine on any PC that meets the minimun requirements.

Get more RAM, and a 7200rpm hard drive if you can. In fact, you can get a 2Ghz machine for a couple hundred bucks if you're in the US. :)

7200rpm?...heh, get one of the new 10,000rpm if your gonna buy a new one. :)

I haven't had a lick of trouble with P5 and I have a P4 1.9 ghz with 256 megs of ram. I haven't tried to render any large scenes with lots of characters yet though, (2 Vickys and a Mike fully clothed is probably the most) and I don't use a lot of super hi rez textures, but still 256 megs of ram has worked fine so far.

P5 has worked for me since the preorder delivery. Great program. But do pump up your system. I was on win2k with a 1.4g athelon. Just installed a 2.1g chip tonight and happy so far. You need to exceed the min requirements and that's good advice to all software specs, not just Poser.

Thanks again guys. But I already know that there are people out there with better computers. I was, like, looking for one that had about the same criteria as myself. Good advice about the RAM! I thought that Poser used the graphic card just as any other application but I didn't want to go as far as to buy a Fire GL card. I was curious if there were something in an affordable price range that you've used. But OK... RAM it is... Bye!!