Hello all,

I tested the P7 render speeds using PhilC's CPUTest scene, and compared those with P6

Here are the results:

Poser 6 render: 2 min 57 sec (177 sec)
Poser 7 render: render in separate process, 4 threads: 1 min 52 sec (112 sec)
Poser 7 render: internal renderer, 4 threads: 2 min 11 sec (131 sec)
Poser 7 render: render in separate proces, 2 threads: 1 min 45 sec (105 sec)
Poser 7 render: internal renderer, 2 threads: 2 min 30 sec (150 sec)
Poser 7 render: render in separate process, 1 thread: 2 min 35 sec (155 sec)
Poser 7 render: internal renderer, 1 thread: 3 min 36 sec (216 sec)

Hardware: Athlon64x2 4400+, 4 GB RAM, Windows XP 64 bit.

Conclusions: using the separate render process certainly speed things up, even when using only one thread (which means the second core is not being used).
4 threads do not have an advantage on a dual core machine. The results seem to indicate that using a separate render process and exactly as many threads as you have cores will give the best performance.
And Poser 7 renders faster than Poser 6 SR3, except when using only one thread and the internal renderer.

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