Can anyone give some suggestions on how to get poser 5 to work and render faster than P4. Simple Mats take forever to load all since i got p5. The renders are SLOOOOOW. Is it just me that has had this problem...tips, suggestions, and gripes are welcome!

What are your render option settings? In Poser 5 you have more render choices. At http://www.runtimedna.com , in their Poser 5 forum Ynsaen has some cool screen captures of render option settings for different needs.

Also leave setting up your lights till the very last if you're in & out of the Materials room as any more than one light in the scene will slow things down a LOT!!!

Do you have all the patches applied??

whats are the corrent patch files?

You can get the patches at the top of this page where it says 'patches' :D Leaving your lights until last is definately a good tip. Don't use texture shading in the pose room either, stick to smooth shading. For rendering the default 'Draft' setting is much quicker than 'Production'. For a quick render keep all the tick boxes on the left blank apart from the 'displacement' map one. It's pretty much common sense stuff really, the fewer otpions you apply the quicker it will render - if all else fails get more RAM :D When I upgraded from 512mb to 1Gb I noticed a dramatic improvement in performance in the pose room, render times seem pretty much CPU limited (unless you want to apply texture filtering in which case you will need more memory). Hope some of that helps.

try defragmenting your pc and checking for viruses. i have p3 and does not take long.