So my lack of memory (actual, human brain memory) puts me into some weird situations.

Years ago I changed my computer, and got an Intel Xeon processor. Nothing too powerful, I can't afford the latest and best parts - it's an Intel Xeon E3-1230. At the time it was good, nowadays very meh. I remember that it had some limitations (like no onboard graphics card) but made up for it by being very good for working on 3d creation - but I forgot why it was good for working on 3d creation. In my mind, it was the go-to reason: performance.

I remember tweaking the Superfly render settings to render as fast as it could, I remember doing GPU renders and then giving up on those because, even though faster, it meant being unable to use my computer for anything else while it rendered, so I'd prefer the extra couple of hours if it meant I could keep working on other stuff outside of Poser for all the hours.

And then someone posted articles, only a few months ago, on how to tweak your Superfly settings to make them render faster, and I followed it for CPU rendering. And then I forgot that - and weeks later cue me being baffled WHY DO I HAVE TO LEAVE MY COMPUTER ON OVERNIGHT TO RENDER ANYTHING SIMPLE?

Yesterday I had enough of it, and just tweaked my settings again, and was baffled to find that it's much faster for me if I set my CPU render settings the same way the articles would tell you to set for GPU rendering. No Branched Path Tracing, larger bucket size. I'm here like "????" and went researching wth is up with my CPU.

Every article I read says that Xeon goes kinda badly in performance tests. It made me even more confused - why did I choose this processor then? And THEN I found out why: it has protection against corrupting files upon crashes and such. Which made me realize that yes, it's been years since I've last had a corrupted file, so thank you so much Xeon, I'd rather have a slightly worse performance than lose hours, days or weeks of work, specially as I terribly dread having to remake something I've already made.

... Still doesn't explain why I have to configure my Superfly renders as if I were rendering on GPU. And this is making me very curious. Does any of our tech-savvy members know?

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.