Wimvdb;

You may have solved part of the problem. VXG139, try this:

Check your settings under Render/ Render Settings tab/ Preview tab:

When I had Enable hardware shading checked and OpenGL selected, my preview window was terribly slow. I changed the settings to Sreed and unchecked Enable hardware settings. It's not as pretty in Preview, but my character is easy to move around and I have better control of the cameras now. Odd that I never ran into this with Poser 7.

As suggested in another thread I was reading last night, part of the problem may be related to the OpenGL drivers. The driver that comes with certain video cards may not be completely compatible with Poser Pro.

I wonder if Vista is part of the problem. I used to run XP-64 with Poser 7, but due to driver problems with the new hardware, I had to switch to Vista-64 and went ahead and upgraded to Poser Pro at the same time. I've gone through the trouble of disabling all of the unnecessary Vista services:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

Time to try OS-7 huh? I've heard it runs much better than Vista.

My video card is an nVidia GTS 8800. An ATI video driver might help solve the problem with an ATI card, but I find it curious that I'd have the same issue with an nVidia card. So, chances are this is more than a video card issue.

And for what it's worth, the 64-bit machine running Poser only has Poser, Adobe PhotoShop and Carrara. It is only for doing art. No MS Office, or other non-essential programs. 

Everyone's comtribution is wonderful, I'm just trying to help narrow the field of possibilities.

-p

I have the same issue, well relatively.

Machine:
  Dual core 2.66;  8gig  memory;  64-bit Vista Ultimate; Two 500gig drives with Poser Pro on C: drive and the swap file on E: drive. I've shut down most of the extraneous junk running in the background of Vista. (If you haven't done this, I highly recommend doing it. There are a lot of unnecessary services running by default in Vista.)

Poser Pro has been setup to use 4 threads in separate processes. I've played with the rendering settings as well, but to no avail. I have noticed though that Poser Pro does not seem to manage memory very well, it seems to load up the processor thus bringing the system to it's knees. Sadly, most of my renders and animations are single characters with nothing dynamic. I too experience slowness in moving objects and rendering. If I change cameras, it takes about 5-10 seconds before Poser responds. The 64-bit rendering is nice, when it works, but it too does not manage memory well.

Any ideas? Is there a way to get Poser Pro to better utilize memory?  I'm about ready to go back to Poser 6 or 7. I'm slowly learning Carrara hoping that will work in place of doing some animation in Poser. And for what it's worth, the Collada is not as good as originally promised. But that is for another thread.

Sorry vxg139, I wish I had some good advice instad of being in the same boat. My files are generally 5-60MB, so I doubt it would be a file size issue.

thanks,

-p

I'm having trouble posting in the pictures to show the difference, but I can at least get 1 snapshot in. 

In Poser Pro, it was very much as how you said it was in the other thread for Angelya wings. For anyone else who lands on this thread, here is the process.

1. Select the Ultimate Wing(s) and go into the Materials Room. 
2. Make sure you are in the Advanced tab.
3. At the bottom, just above the feathers picture, you will see a Normal_Forward option with a checkbox. You'll need to go into every feather group and check this Normal_Forward option. 
4. Make sure to do this for both the left and right wings.

And viola, the wings will look as they are supposed to!