Since Poser didn't really rely on the video card but loved the ram, I never paid much attention it. If I get this right D/S wants a GOOD video card, right? If this is true I would like some suggestions as to video cards. I'm running AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Processor (1.80 GHz),XP Home, 1Gig DDR Ram and have an open AGP Slot.

People seem to want to get into arguments over video cards but here's what I think: Win2000 Pro or XP Pro- latest versions and upgrades. Makes a huge difference- plus a recent graphics card from the past year or two, with the LATEST drivers from the manufacturers- not Beta drivers- but one's they feel are very stable. I'm using ATI Radeon 128MB and and Matrox 64MB cards, and the drivers are probably one year old. Since I am not an active gamer, but like to play some (once in a while) with Flight Sim, Train Sim and my favorite- Crimson Skies (since I am SO DAMN GOOD at shooting down my opponents- big ego booster) I don't really have the VERY LATEST- which may also cause other problems. So anyway- POSER Pro-Pack, Bryce, Vue and Daz Studio all run great on my systems and basically am having no real problems with anything! Not familiar with XP Home, but the rest of your system sounds really good. DEFINATELY get an AGP card, unless you can support something even faster- whatever than might be!

Veritas777, Thanks for your response. Trying to get all the info I can. May I ask why you chose a Radeon card over a Nvida (sp?)?

Overall the Radeon is a "better" - notice, in quotes - card than the nVidia because of various rendering and anti-alias issues. This affects just the current generation of cards. Your system setup is pretty solid, so you should have no problems with what you have. Just FYI, the card will ONLY help with previewing the images in the viewport, and have nothing to do with the actual rendering of the final image. That is all processor/memory.