I am wondering if anyone here has updated to the SR 1 for Poser 7? I recently did, and I can tell you, my poser experience has gotten WORSE instead of better.

First off, a nice clean install of Poser 7 was a beautiful thing. No memory leak, no errors while rendering that the application was out of memory, or couldn't allocate enough memory, or couldn't load the texture due to said memory leak. Firefly renders were a dream! Fast! UBER! Awesome even!

Enter the Dark Lord of Memory Leaks, Poser 7 SR 1. I figured it would fix a couple of the display bugs I had encountered, such as the OpenGL driver not being as fast as it should be, and the random crash here and there. Boy was I in for a surprise. Once that evil thing had been installed Poser was no longer Poser, but a HAL9000, constantly telling me it couldn't do this, or it couldn't render that due to a memory error.

No to be perfectly clear about my system. I built it myself, I have close to 12 years of computer hardware experience. I triple boot my system between Vista Buisness, Mac OS X 10.4.8, and Windows XP SP2. My specs are:

AMD64 3400+ (stock at 2.2Ghz)
2GB Corsair XMS Pro DDR400 (leds on top the ram) @ 400mhz
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 (stock clocked at 500mhz(GPU) and 1200mhz(memory))
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
200GB Maxtor Diamond Max 10 3GB Sata
120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Sata
60GB Western Digital ATA133
16X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW

All RAM checks out. CPU is fine, just added a 700w Modular PSU. Vid card is still good, and all hard disks check out. I should also mention that cooling is not a problem as my system rarely goes above 28C at full load. The beauty is in the front 120mm fan, the rear 120mm fan, the top 80mm fan, and two 80mms on the side. The 8800GTS barely goes above 45C at full load.

It seems like "E-Frontier" botched Poser again. I'll be reinstalling it to a nice clean slate, and trashing the SR 1 file. Thank god for DAZ Studio! Its saved my bacon for my projects over the last week.

Lemme know your experiences!

Blade