mfisher opened this issue on Apr 03, 2000 ยท 22 posts
mfisher posted Mon, 03 April 2000 at 6:48 PM
You guys are going to laugh at me, here, but for the past 3 weeks I have actually been trying to use Poser 4 on an older Pentium with only 64Mb of RAM :-) As you probably could predict, it doesn't take too many custom morph targets or second/third figures on a scene before I run out of memory. Evolution/Eve was my first clue that my machine was woefully inadequate. I loaded her with what I considered "essential" MTs and couldn't even get the final poses done before the scene would crash and give me an "out of memory" warning. Then I actually bought Vicki, with her increased number of vertices. Hoo boy :-) Problem solved, though. All it takes is money. I have a new 750Mhz PIII on order with 128 Mb of RAM (and a 32Mb GeForce Graphics accelerator for the games I like to play). I wanted to go with 256 with Poser in mind, but I had to cut a few corners to fit into my pocketbook. I made sure it was expandable to 256 for the future. So my question is this - how much RAM are most of you running and what concessions or problems have you run into with your installed RAM? Is anybody using the new DDR chips? How do you think Poser will do for me at "only" 128 Mb? Will I be scrimping my pennies for an additional 128 here in a month or two after pulling whats left of my hair out by the roots? Marc