I know most people here use Poser on the Windows platforms. I however use it on a Macintosh and have a question for others who do the same. I now use Mac OS 9.1 and OS 10.0. I will be updating my OS to OS 10.3 or 10.4 shortly. Will Poser Pro Pack run alright in those? When I run OS 10.0 and open Poser it restarts in Mac Classic mode and runs. I have heard that the later version do not change to Classic. I am considering updating to Poser 5, also. Thanks for any and all help or suggestions.

Poser 4 and Pro Pack run fine in OS 10. I've switched to Poser 5 and rarely run Poser 4 in classic mode anymore. There are some Python scripts that will only run in Poser 4 so I keep it on my Mac just in case (a tip of the hat to Ockham by the way for all the brilliant Python scripts he makes available). Poser 5 sometimes runs dog slow, even on my dual-processor 2 gigahertz G5 with 1.5 gig of RAM. I don't even bother with the Hair Room as it's painful how slow it can be to do some simple tasks. I keep waiting for Curiouslabs to release an overall speed fix for Macintosh(and hopefully make the Face Room less clumsy at the same time). But in general there's so many cool features with Poser 5, like reflections, volumetric lighting, being able to use movies as textures, etc.

Thanks for the information.

I run Poser 4 P/P in classic on 10.2.8 (Jaguar) but see not reason why it shouldn't run from 10.3.x as well. Of course if you are upgrading to P5 it'll run natively in OS X. I also run P5 but prefer P4/PP for animating.

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I run Poser PP on 10.3 in classic mode and it runs fine with the exception that sometimes the names of figures does not appear under the display window, and in a couple of rare occations it has shut down while I was posing a figure. Overall I would say it runs more stable on my mac than on my old windows PC.

Was running ProPack on G4 733mHz 1.5 gigoRAM, it seemed Painfully slow. Like, I can't-wait-this-long-for-the-Pose-library-to- open-slow. So, I switched to a dual 2 gHz G5 and it now runs very smoothly. Seems like a no brainer but I've always suspected something else was going on with the G4 to make PPP run so slowly. Animajik, why is P4 better for animating? I haven't made the leap to P5, yet.

I prefer to run poser 4 in classic mode instead to use Poser 5 in OS X really a bad piece of software...really sad. Running on G4 733 2 Gb of ram 128 DDR video card (ATI 9200). Full of bug, slow, crap interface in browsing elements (pose, props, figure etc etc) Kai Kraus is so far now...

Yes, as stated theres no problem of compatibility but the speed doesnt improve much even in G5's. I'm a Macuser since the 68000 procesors, devoted as the next one but trust me on this, if you use poser regularly, buy a windows machine. Yes it sounds like blasphemy, because Poser was first released for Macintosh I live in the belive that was Ok and doesnt need anything from the wintel guys until I used Poser 4 in a Pentium III. All my world fall apart!, it takes half the time to render anything and in a P4 its much less than that. I never leave Apple so I have now two machines in my desktop, a Mac for all the work and a P4 for 3d and Poser exclusively.

The same here...i see on PC the "waiting cursor" is the Mac little watch... ohhhh God Kai Kraus please come back!!!