gusdrum opened this issue on Feb 17, 2003 ยท 4 posts
gusdrum posted Mon, 17 February 2003 at 8:44 AM
How much RAM need for work with Poser 5? I have a P4 1.6 G, 256 RAM and Nvidia Geforce with 64 Mb. Tanks.
Little_Dragon posted Tue, 18 February 2003 at 6:28 PM
A few weeks ago, I had a Pentium 3 with 128MB of RAM. I recently upgraded to an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB, and things are running much snappier now.
Poser 4 was a big memory hog, and Poser 5 is no improvement in this area. Both versions suffer from memory leaks, so the more memory you have, the longer it can run before becoming unstable. Also, the trend in 3D is toward higher-resolution meshes and textures, which consume memory in a hurry.
Buy as much memory as you can afford, then take out a loan and buy more, up to the maximum supported by your motherboard. Win2000 and WinXP have better memory management than earlier versions of Windows, so consider upgrading your OS if necessary.
pizzone posted Tue, 18 February 2003 at 7:39 PM
I have the same pc configuration as yours and all I can say is that P5 really runs with 256 Megs of RAM, but it's Slooooww (more than P4)... I'm going to upgrade to at least 1 Gig of RAM, and I suggest You to do the same. Of course, if you can get more RAM it will be even better: not only Poser will run faster, but it will be able to render more complex scenes (more than 5 Millenium figures together, hi-res maps, and so on...). A lot of people hope to take advantage of their "ultra-hi-tech" video-card, but I regret to say that it has NO effect on Poser (it has an "internal" way of rendering that works the same way no matter if you have a jurassic VGA or the latest ultra-smart-hi-res-video-card...). Last but not least: to take advantage of your RAM you MUST have Windows 2000 or XP, because Win98 can't manage more than 256 Megs of RAM. Hope it helped... Alberto
Darboshanski posted Wed, 26 February 2003 at 4:16 PM
I,alas, had to put my old machine out to pasture. The win98se and the 384 megs of ram just wasn't enough anymore. I have just finished building a machine with a MSI K7N2L Nforce DDR motherboard which can take the new 400Mhz RAM and a processor up to 2800XP,an AMD XP1800 processor,512 MB 333mhz RAM,I kept my ATI Radeon pro 9000 card, larger hard drive and WinXP O/S. The way models and textures are becoming the older systems can't seem to keep up.