I have been out of the loop with 3D stuff for a year or so since my laptop died. The latest version I have is Poser 11 (assuming I can still download it as I lost the email address I registered it to) What makes Poser 12 better than Poset 11? I might be getting some money soon as in not sure when but soon hopefully so I can buy a new laptop. I'm debating if I have enough $$$$ I could upgrade to 12. Also where can I find the minimum requirements for either version of Poser?

the system requirements for 12 are at the bottom of the page here

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I use Poser 13 and win 10

If you mainly use Firefly you can happily continue using Poser 11 without it being an issue. If you render using Superfly however, the cost is worth the time you'll save on your renders alone. Especially if we are talking CPU rendering.

Poser scripts by Snarlygribbly

P12's adaptive sampling with threshold [___] can let you use high quality settings in Superfly without a huge render time penalty. If P12 Superfly sees that a given pixel has not changed after X number of samples, it considers that pixel to be finalized, and skips it on later samples. At the beginning of a render, progress will be as slow as P11's Superfly, but after a lot of pixels have been finalized, P12 Superfly only spends its time on the tough areas of your render, and you see the rate of progress increase significantly.

These are the settings I used for the Grey Havens test/promo renders:

Caveat: If your PC is Win7, it is not officially supported in P12. I'm on Win7, and so far P12 works (except the embedded store). My GPU is an old Quadro, so I'm limited to CPU-only rendering. You would need Win10 to make full use of RTX3090 GPU rendering power. P11 can't fully exploit the RTX series GPUs, and Win7 can't either.

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

Another point on which I save a significant amount of time: I have a rather common setup for the skins, and changing only the bitmaps using a single drag-and-drop is a real winner for me.

It is as simple as:

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👿 Win11 on i9-13900K@5GHz, 64GB, RoG Strix B760F Gamng, Asus Tuf Gaming RTX 4070 OC Edition, 1 TB SSD, 6+4+8TB HD
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👿 Poser 13 and soon 14 ❤️