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Subject: Computer/Video Card for Poser

Renderholic opened this issue on Apr 07, 2010 · 8 posts
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Renderholic ( ) posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 2:42 PM · edited Fri, 10 January 2025 at 11:22 AM

 I am getting a new computer  to replace my 6 yr. old machine and am considering a Dell Inspirion 570 MT with Windows 7, AMD Athlon II X4 Processor 630, 8 GB RAM, 640 GB HD, and an integrated ATI Radeon HD 4200 Graphics chip (AMD chipset 785G).  Is that combination good to run Poser and Vue? What is more important for 3D graphics, the processor, the memory or the video card?

Any thoughts or advice appreciated.

John

thefixer ( ) posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 4:52 PM

Looks good to me, although if you're going to run Vue as well, I'd go with an Nvidia card, Vue sometimes has serious problems with some ATI cards, so I'm told...
That's just what I've heard, I only ever have Nvidia anyway...

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Willber ( ) posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 5:32 PM · edited Wed, 07 April 2010 at 5:32 PM

 Processor speed and number of cores for rendering.... go big.

markschum ( ) posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 6:38 PM

Poser really uses the vid card opengl for previews , then its cpu and memory for rendering. 

I would try what you have listed first and see how it goes. You can always slot in a better card later.
I added an nvidia 6200 card for running a few games and Poser 7. 

DarkEdge ( ) posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 10:21 PM

I was an ATI card user for a long time, then I got a Nvidia...haven't looked back since.

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stewer ( ) posted Thu, 08 April 2010 at 1:26 AM

Looks like decent machine, almost the same that I have under my desk at home. The graphics chip is a bit on the weak side though, adding something like a GT240 would probably be a nice improvement.

seachnasaigh ( ) posted Thu, 08 April 2010 at 2:34 AM

The 8Gb of RAM and the (quad?) processor sound good.  But instead of relying on the onboard graphics, I'd get a midrange graphics card, so you can preview with hardware shading.  You'll be able to see procedural and tiling textures in preview, which helps greatly in getting materials dialed in.

preview without hardware shading:
without hardware shading

preview with hardware shading:
OpenGL preview with hardware shading enabled

Set this in the render settings, preview tab:
render settings - preview tab

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5

Renderholic ( ) posted Thu, 08 April 2010 at 11:23 AM

Thanks to all for the information. This is very helpful.

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