Hello,

 

after I started using more features of Poser I'm getting into more and more trouble. Already right from the start when I opened a scene, rendered or deleted objects the Poser window turns white and stays unresponsive for a while. Sometimes it crashes, sometimes it works.

The material room is almost unusable, because the switch to it freezes Poser unpredictable. Sometimes when I reload the textures, select the ground and/or run a draft render I can switch to the material room. I even stopped using other rooms.

Rendering with AO and DOF doesn't work at all. Firefly just get into a endless loop, Poser get unresponsive and finally after waiting with patient I've got to kill Posers process. I even can't render the simplest scenes with two primitives and depth of field.

Well now you could think I'm running Poser on some weird legacy PC - No, I'm not.

It's an Intel i3, 64-bit with 4 cores and 6 GB RAM, running Windows 7. So I guess even the 1.4 GHz for each logical core and the little HD3000 GPU with OpenGL 3.1 should be enough and when it's not it doesn't explain the instability.

Perhaps you can help me.

The bottom line is - it's Poser 8, which I got on sale. It's with all latest updates available (SR3 > 8.0.3), although it's 32 on 64 Bit system. Is it worth to upgrade to Poser 9 or even side-upgrade to Poser Pro 2012, only to get 64-bit application and renderer with the Pro 2012? I hope you can recommend me a solution in the long run. The trial version of Poser 9 I could try but nevertheless I wanted to ask you and your experience. Thanks in advance.