My 9 yo son is just starting to take an interest in CG art, I recently picked him up a cheap copy of Vue 4 and I intend on letting him have my Poser 5. With computer upgrades over time we have a bit of stuff laying around and I was wondering what people would suggest as a good base to run Poser 5? I know I have an AMD XP2000+ sitting around and at least 512 DDR - Poser 5 never ran really successfuly on that setup for me - but by the time the patches were out I had upgraded, so whatcha think?

I have a 1.6ghz amd, 1 gig of DDR RAM/266 and that only just manages to cope..but I'm upgrading soon so.... I'm also running poser 5sr4

If you have something made by Cray, that might get the job done. :o) Seriously, at least a gig of memory and a fast processor, at least over 1 GHz.

I'm currently using Poser 5 (and 6) on an AMD Athlon XP 2000+. It runs fine. I'd be happier with a faster processor, of course, but that's always true. I'd recommend at least 1GB of memory, if your motherboard can support it.

I ran Poser 5 on a Pentium 450 system with 256 meg ram and win98 se. Loading more than one figure lead to slow responses. Poser on WIN Xp seems to run much better even with 512 meg ram. Make sure you update with the SR3 and SR4 patches for Poser 5. Your AMD system sounds good.

Sounds good Little_Dragon - I will have to pickup a MB for the processor anyway and I'm sure all the ones that take the K7's allow up to at least 1.5 gig

Try to find a mainboard that supports dual channel DDR. Memory speed definitely helps when working with Poser! Check first if your CPU can handle dual channel, I'm not sure about XP2000+

If I understand the term "dual-channel" correctly, then yes ... I've set mine up that way. I had some stability issues after installing the new memory, but later realized it was due to the memory being clocked too high for an XP 2000+ system. I had to throttle the memory down to 133MHz (from the default of 166MHz), so it'd match the frontside bus.