The bottom line is I'm pretty annoyed with my Poser 7 experience. I rolled back to Poser 6 which is a little faster, but I've more or less spent 5 hours simply trying to get a character posed and dressed.

I don't recall Poser being so slow before where if I simply click on the frame dial, it goes into a long "not responding" period. These moments can last upwards of two minutes, even though the dial doesn't actually change frame; same goes for clicking on menu items or if the mouse moves over the body of a figure. It's pretty random, however. There are times in 6 and 7 where I can pull the guide from frame 1 to 30 in real time, then others where it's painfully slow to step through. I've tried running with OpenGL and Scree3D; both are very slow, even when just working with posing the figure.

I am using an ATI x1300xt PCI card which I know isn't the best, but it should do the job with 2 gigs of memory on a AMD 64x2 2gig processor-type machine.

I'm looking for alternative programs to use with or instead of Poser. I like that I can morph faces in the face room, but if I close the project and re-open it, the morphs stay but when going back to the face room, they are not retained. Ideally, I would like to morph my figures in Poser, then pose and clothe them in another program.

I've read Vue can pose and render scenes effectively, but can I use it to also dress figures with custom clothing? Daz Studio also runs very fast on my machine though I've never been able to effectively pose a character. I have over 100 scenes to render so I'm looking for something that I can use to pose, dress, then render as quickly as possible.

Let me know if I can provide any more information and all helpful suggestions on how to speed up Poser are welcome, but I'm pretty frustrated with the time it takes for it to even load from one "room" to another at this point. My current problem is clothing falling off for some reason. sigh

Thanks