Just wondering if anyone else has had slow performance after installing Poser Pro 2010 - I was using P7 which worked like a dream, but 2010 is experiencing things like really jerky scrolling, 5 mins+ to load a simple figure and is basically unusable. 

Its running on a Quad 2.8 w/2gb a ton of hard disc and even a fresh install of Windows 7.

Just thought it was worth checking if anyone else has had this problem before giving up and going back to P7

My first thought would be too little memory.  You do not mention if you are running 32 or 64 bit, but 2gig for Win7 is a little tight and it sounds like it is swapping.

I dont have Poser Pro, but when I upgraded to P8, Rendering speed increased by abut 200%

Bill

Did you update to SR1?

My Poser Pro 2010 is 20 times faster than P7.

With that litte RAM on a Windows 7 installation, I think it is time to speed Windows up.
Stop the indexing and other hungry processes.

Google for; How to speed Windows 7 up.

CPU looks good, RAM is on the very low side.

That said, I ran PoserPro2010 on 2 different 10" netbooks, one on XP the other on Windows 7 starter.
OK, render time was slow due to a N270 and a N450 CPU and with only 1GB RAM.
But he pose room stayed fluent.

Update Windows, clean Windows7, update PoserPro to SR1.

Use :
CCleaner = free
Glary Utilities = free
Advanced Syste Care free (version 4 I think now), to get your system up to speed.

Thanks for the advice :) - SR1 is on and made things a little more stable with regards to random crashes but did not solve the issue

Problem 1: Jerky Movements in the Pose Room

I also thought it could be a RAM issue so I slapped 8 gig in it and it had absolutely no effect at all.  However that was windows 7 32 so it could only use 3.5 gb of it anway - so I'm going to format the drive again, clean install windows 7 64 so it can use the full 8GB and see if that makes any difference.

Problem 2: Slow loading libraries

Another issue that has been driving me up the wall that may be linked to whatever it causing the above issue is that the library takes ages to load, shows lots of '??' by the directory icons until its counted how many items in that directory.  While its a pretty big runtime library (around 32gb) P7 never had any issues with this,

I guess I will see if Windows 7 64 solves the problem, then I will try a new graphics card, then I am giving up and going back to P7 and Vista (they may both be flawed but at least they seem to be stable)

in library options, disable "reopen folders" - the slow loading affects some and not others, but if you dwo not reopen folders then the initialization has less work to do. slow pose room is graphics card not ram

Thanks for that, I totally agree the Pose room issues are probably graphics card, as the problem gets worse the more complex the scene becomes - I need to buy a new card anyway as I've just bought a cintiq so need the extra output anyway.

Updated the system to Windows 7 64 so Poser can access all of the memory and its speeded the rendering up by a factor of 10, also solved the issues regarding the slow loading library.

Thanks a million y'all :)