Poser 8 Update - Smith Micro Releases Service Update

While they took their sweet time about it, Smith Micro has finally put out the first service release for Poser 8.   While it has fixed some of the issues on my desktop, it rendered the program completely useless on my laptop.  So, I uninstalled the service release on my laptop and I’m back to a somewhat functional program that can’t handle large renders.   My laptop is maxed out with memory but may benefit from a better graphics card so that may be the way to go.   The way Poser 8 works on my desktop now is much improved.  I still hate the library and feel it’s an unnecessary resource hog.  I found out that the library has a refresh feature that was less than obvious and using indirect lighting still slows the rendering down considerably even to the point of crashing on anything complex.

So, for now it’s workable.  Still not happy with Poser 8 on my laptop but even Poser 7 didn’t work well with it.  I haven’t had the same issue with other programs but we’ll see what happens when Smith Micro puts out Service Release 2.

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