I don't have troubles with Vista,its running just fine. I also used the Vista upgrade adviser before i upgraded. It said my processor should be replaced, i have a 3.40 P4 W/HT. I do plan on getting a new board and the new core 2 processor in the future. But for now its running just fine. I can play Battlefield 2142 with no problems and Oblivion runs great too along with Battlefield 2 and all the upgrade packs.Those are the only games i have so i cant speak for anything else

My Internet connection stayed the same, 16582 Down and 985 Up Comcast Cable, zoom zoom :). Poser 7 runs fine, it has some bug but it had bugs on XP, Hex 2 runs fine,Carrara 5 runs fine, though i have to use the native import. I had to upgrade my Nero because it wasn't compatible and PSP8 which Corel says isn't compatible runs great lol, so i don't understand that one. 

So as far as Vista being Useless,thats just BS. Oh and i bought the Vista Premium and the Dream Scenes are awesome. I Bought it because i want all the features Vista has to offer,even if i don't use them all.Its a personal choice :)

I dont have a problem with slowness and i use Carrara,Poser i have a P4 3.40Ghz w hyperthreading and 2 gigs of ram. I have a Nvida 7800GS Vid card and i am using the current beta drivers.

I had the highest score 5.9 for graphics and overall a 4.3. I do have some problems with poser 7 but i had problems with 7 before i moved to Vista Ultimate. I also get, this program is not compatable with aero but it just shuts it off for the program, its PSP 8 and Corel PSp XI but i have stardock window blinds and the same 2 programs i had to exclude from the themes.

I like Vista Ultimate, sure it has bugs but i dont remember one microsoft OS release that didnt have bugs or anyother OS for that matter. Over all for my system its pretty darn stable. :)

Do you have the downloaded installer or a CD. If you have the downloaded installer i would redownload poser 7 it may have been corrupted  with the install of Vista. Also make sure you install all of Win XPs updates,including SP2

I would like far better posing control,using the rotate tool is one pain in the butt. The dials are ok for fine tuning but we need better mouse control movement. Thats MO

Quote - I wonder who in his right mind would even want Vista? I really thought slavery had been banned in the US, seems like Microsoft wants the whole world to be their slaves and only do what they want them to do.

It's finally becoming clear..... Bill Gates wants to rule the world and Windows is his main weapon to do so.

Just why would anyone no buy a system because Bill Gates owns it?? If its not Bill then it would be someone else. I do plan on upgrading to Vista because of the DX 10 and better security. And there is NO other OS that allows me to do just what i want and with ease of use. I dont want a Mac because it doesnt support all of the games i play or all the programs i use,nor does any of the free OS out there.

Thinking like yours really doesnt do anything,nor is it a good reason to not buy Windows.

Quote - Being a more photoshop oriented artist I was creating pretty much 100% of what you saw in my work in Photoshop. I created 3D effects with plugins, and shading, etc. And no, it's not the same. Creating a 3d illusion in Photoshop from scratch vs downloading a 3d object and placing a light source on the stage and hitting the render button are about like comparing Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" with a Photograph of those original sunflowers.

If you are using plug-ins or any other type of "Effects" its not 100% from scratch and on the same level we poser users do. Plug in Effects are made by someone else besides you,so are the Effects but you are using what the program gives you or buying Effects or plug-ins. What we poser users do and you do are use the program to make our art. Each is its own type of art and are 100% different from each other. Just like oil painters will say what you photoshop users make isn't art,or pencil artist will say that photography isn't Art. Each use their medium to produce Art.

I would say that IMO our medium is very close to photography,Photoshop IMO is like digital manipulation.Each capable of producing museum quality Art

Quote - I would hope a big apologize from eFrontier and a bonus or anything... I'm a customer, not a betatester

(sorry. I'M A BETATESTER AT RENDEROTICA. If they gave me Poser7 to test it, my final inform would be FAIL - NOT READY TO MARKET UNTIL FIXING ALL BUGS)

I am a beta tester for AOL, been for many years,beta tester for PSP,beta tester for Symantics and a few other products. And what i am going to say stands true for every single company. They are fully aware of 99% of the bugs when the programs are released, They are fully aware of requested functionality. NO software is released without bugs and very few with unknown bugs.

 I must say that beta testers are very through and take pride in doing there jobs and alot of times get very upset with the software makers for releasing buggy software. What can be done about this? not a darn thing except for not buying any product just released and it must be done by 90% of the people that buy the products. Money talks everything else walks. The only other thing can be done is legistration, but that will never happen in my lifetime.

They release it because they need the money and nothing more.

In my opinion i think she looks great,no not great ,shes very beautiful out of the box, but we provide the personality and beauty or dark side. She looks very Human, unlike what e-fronter provides, i am not a fan of any of there models.

I have a few bugs,when i try to ad lights to a large sign the program becomes unresponsive

Bug 2 The preview render will sometimes render just the background color

Bug 3 when useing the preview render my system becomes unresponsive or takes a very long time render a small section 5 minutes or better

Bug 4 trying to pose the V4 to V3 model is very hard and mostly unresponsive

Theses bugs are using one model set Apartment 39 plus V4 to V3 model

System  

Windows Xp Pro Sp2 all updates
Nvida 7800GS Video Card  93.71 Drivers
2 LCD Monitors
3.40 P4 W/Hyperthreading
2 Gigs of Ram

I Pre ordered poser 7, i just hope i dont have to wait untill thanksgiving to get it lol. I really dont like preordering because i hate to wait :) But 70 bucks worth of free content is worth it i guess!!

I look at it this way,kudos to the people that got poser 4 and 5 for free and i missed a dam good sale :) Happens to me all the time lol

I figured out the problem, Poser 6 is in compatable with WindowBlinds. I had to go into the setting and use per application so Poser doesnt use the themes. I havent checked the backgrounds yet so i dont know if that is causing the problem,i kinda dont think so though.

I having alot more problems then the background shrinking, it doesnt matter what button i click on to choose an action it locks up poser for about 5 minutes or i can click the exit button{ when it lets me} and it will unfreeze it. For an example, i can click on the render button on the main program and it will give me a whiteout square where the setting should be. Thats what happens to everything.

I am going to uninstall poser and try to install the SR3 and see if that helps,if not going back to SR2

Thank you both, i will give it a try, right now i am working on installing a new drive and installing and replacing all my files and programs so it will be a few days llol

Stan

Sure i would but i dont have a clue how to find the wishlists. Help with a link??