I'm not a gamer, not even a casual one so my system was built specifically for rendering in CPU and GPU as I use both DAZ Studio and Poser, I also develop add ons for both using Adobe, Z-Brush and 3D Coat.  I use Luxrender too but I'm looking at Octane for realtime renders and animation.

 I thought you shouldn't mix Kepler with Fermi or that at least it wasn't recommended.  I also had been told that the GTX 580 was the fastest card for Octane so that is why I went for that one twice.  I hear that Kepler is coming thru now but I still see the developers using GTX 580 in the Octane forum.

Thank you for the detailed reply.  I still have to learn a lot to be able to maximize the Octane use in my system.  My motherboard is the sabertooth x79 from Asus and I currently have the two top PCIE x16 slots populated with the GTX 580 cards.  I have the last PCIe 3.0 x16 slot free so I'm guessing I couls stick my third graphic card there and use it for my monitor and the OS.  Problem is that third PCI slot says in the motherboard manual that it gets used at x8 mode instead of x16 mode so I'm wondering if my system performance will diminish.  Right now Windows 7 gives me a 7.8 rate because my i7 3930K CPU is being ran at stock, I know if I overclock just a little it can get to 7.9 but if I use a weaker card for my system and in x8 performance may dip in OpenGL viewports I guess, unless the two GTX 580's keep being used even though they don't connect to a monitor.  Many questions, like I said I still have a lot to learn.

I'm running the Poser octane demo with 2 GTX 580 3GB cards, my question is does the renderer uses both cards and the 6GB of memory.  

Also I can load two gen 4 characters fine and it renders instantly but a Stonemason set never comes thru, the screen stays black.  I've seen videos showing Stonemason renders in Octane so I wonder if I need to setup things different.

What about using a third cheaper card for my monitor and leaving the 2 GTX 580 for Octane, will that help with Octane performance?

Glad you found it.  The SWOLE  full body morph should be at the Shaping tab under Universal.  Also if you select Head, Upper Body, Lower Body and Legs, those have partial SWOLE body morphs too under Universal so if you only want to dial the body morphs without altering the head just dial the upper and lower body morphs.

SWOLE also combines real well with Michael 5, here's a rendering with its Genesis recipe:

I use EditPad Lite which should be the same.  Thanks again Lyrra.

Thank you so much for the through explanation.  I was about to give up on Poser compatibility for this product but with this I'll try to see if I can squeeze the time to do this to each file since its A LOT of frames.  16 PZ2 motions in total.  I wish there was a script I could use to automate this.  Thanks again for taking the time to explain this. 

This is something to try. Thank you, lesbentley.

Thank you Lyrra.  I thought at first it had to do with it too but the subdragon doesn't have IK in Poser, its grayed out. 

Thank you for the support.

I tested in Poser but since it went out before Smith Micro fixed scaling I never tested them with scaling so that might have to do with it.  I suppose also the reason some developers abandoned support for the figure. Comforming clothes have inconsistencies like the one you mention between Studio & Poser's in regards to scaling.

I think in part the scaling issues made developers turn away.  I know it took a really long time to do my Gymrat Xtreme set (but I did support even the presets-which to me were the real strength of the new figure) and I know at least two developers that wanted to give support to the Freak 4 but after getting stuck with scaling issues just gave up. 

I thought I've had solved the problem with Dynamic Clothes since he has been getting a piece of clothing almost every month for a year now.  Dynamic clothes doesn't takes as long to develop as conforming and there is (barely) enough sales so development becomes feasible.

But now with Genesis conforming clothes can be fitted to the big guy easier.

Quote - Actually we don't... may want to fix that simon.

Yes, I forgot I've posted this on the DAZ Renderosity forum as well.  Really disapointed that Renderosity doesn't have an edit function, as I recall it used to have one but here's what I posted in the Poser Renderosity forum to refrain:

Just want to make clear that a Freak 5 figure hasn't been announced by DAZ yet but traditionally it always comes right after M5 so I'm keeping my fingers crossed so the tradition continues.  Now come on and join the club!! ;)>>

Just want to make clear that a Freak 5 figure hasn't been announced by DAZ yet but traditionally it always comes right after M5 so I'm keeping my fingers crossed so the tradition continues.  Now come on and join the club!! ;)