1.No 2.No 3.never 4.never 5.slowish before patch faster now (also used Nerds tweaks) 6.No 7.No Win2k AMD and ATI radeon

toasted cheese always makes me have nightmares like that.

Ditto c1rcle Yes

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Have you applied the service pack (it does speed it up)
Also Nerd (god bless him!) posted a series of tweaks to speed up FireFly. They work too.

Having had Poser for all of two weeks (since the one-legged Irishman discovered Wiltshire) I would say on the whole.. Judy is an Alien....

It was when I was working on the face room and was flicking between the pose room and face room (I using smooth shaded on the pose room and (fade-up the twilight zone music) there she was..

Talk about "all your bases are belong to us"
if you don't know what I'm talking about see link above

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Hurrah There really is a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow! Loved the cartoon Enjoy PaulC

Hi Williamsheil. Good points. Some of my frustration with Windows -and I have been running Windows ever since NT3.1 (now there was unstable!) has been the resources the OS actually take to run. Today I have been playing with my latest toy(new PC) It has a Matrox Parhelia 128MB workstation card. The device driver has a .NET interface - it needs huge resources from my system that I need to use Poser. A comparison - ATI radeon driver 3,244K, Matrox Driver 22,148K. I agree that poser puts extra-ordinary stresses on any system. I do not know if Intel Hyperthreading technology or AMD's Hammer would actually improve things as far as bus width is concerned. I am somewhat surprised that CL does not take into account some of the technologies that the graphics cards are beginning to incorporate into their engine (hardware displacement mapping and such) We seem to be reaching a point within the process that Poser is using the CPU/RAM for rendering operations and leaving a specialised,made for the job rendering engine quiescent. dbutenhof Thanks for the update. Sad that is probably going to be carbon based. kawecki That was my understanding of the problem. PaulC

Gosh that cat reminds me of my old Maine Coon cat (died last year) He would sit just like that. I'm afraid that if I did that to She Who Must Be Obeyed when she came in she would a) laugh b) wonder what I'd been taking during the day. c) probably say "the bath is ready then, oh good..." Romance is alive and well in Marlborough (just)

Hiya Gosh I'm glad you've got a shipped flag! If you upload em, I'll use em! Thanks Chohole PaulC No image today, at work for an editorial meeting, sneaked out when I started falling asleep!

wrpspeed Thanks for that site Downloading now! PaulC

The invisible man(without bandages)

Wrpspeed
It this the film version fighting machine or the book version fighting machines

Different as chalk and cheese - book ones walked on three legs

Hey Jimmi I think there are elements tied into the registry. When I registered ,the passcode thingy(technical term) wrote to the operating system drive - not my poser drive. I think CL would look at upgrading to a new machine as a valid reason to re -registering. Look at the numerous threads on installing. It does seem that if you have a good stable OS fully patched up with a stable install of Poser 5 and upgrade to SR1 it works. It looks as though if the install is unstable or misbehaving the patch seems to make matters worse. PaulC

Thanks steve Already a huge fan (and subscriber) Is this the start of an H.GWells Theme Thought about a Martian Fighting Machine! whoopdat - its for vicky to dance with the Eloi (or duck the Morgoths) Thanks again Steve PaulC

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

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

Seriously Lovely picture. I wonder which cat gets the bird!

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