well, i broke down, upgraded to a 64 bit system.
here's the specs.
DFI mobo
Athlon 64 bit 3400 CPU
2 GIGS cor$air memory
256meg video card
Umm, my system wasnt zaktly the slowest or oldest as it was.. but I gotta say, I can render FAST (not just 'seconds',- - really noticable).
am 'preparing' for P6...figured I'd amp up what I had.
XP home isnt 32bit, so I really wondered about any diffs... thing is, I can multitask and the PC dont bog at all with 5 (count em... FIVE!!!) memory hoggin apps running all at once.

My last system specs, an Athlon (32bit) XP 2500, 1 gig cor$air, and the rest of the same parts was "fast" too, but I couldn't multi-task without taxing the system.

A specific Poser related thingy is "global lighting" with several shadowmaps.. when there was a large amount of lights, when I rendered it, each shadowmap set to 1024 would take 2-3 seconds for the progress bar to go and switch to the next light...NOW, using the SAME global light setting, a render will instantaniously "zip! zip! zip!" faster than I can type it out, through all the lights with shadowmaps, then render faster too!
havent 'measured" the actual render "draw" in the window for time... but I can tell this was all "worth it".

just FYI..

Message edited on: 02/23/2005 22:26