Quote - I first programmed computers in high school using jumpers (wires), gates, and Boolean logic. This was about the time that integrated circuits became available. My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2K of memory. I bought a 16K memory-pack for it, and the salesman laughed at me. He said no one would ever write a program for a home computer that would need 16K of memory.

Now I have a 64-bit computer with Vista 64-bit OS, and 4Gigs of memory. I bought Poser Pro entirely for the 64-bit rendering engine (which was not what made it a "Pro" program). The Firefly renderer of Poser 7 on this machine would terminate (often crashing Poser) at about 1.75Gigs of memory usage. Firefly 64-bit does not even slow down when it reaches 2.5Gigs of memory usage.

Poser 8 with only a 32-bit version of Firefly would be like going back to a 2K T/S 1000 without the 16K memory-pack. The features and content not withstanding, this is less than Smith Micro can offer its users, seeing that the code for 64-bit rendering (including the ability to render on legacy 32-bit machines) has already been written. Unless there is a ridiculously cheap side-grade price from Poser Pro, I will have to join the growing number of Poser users who will not buy Poser 8.

LMK

EXACTLY!

But we are going round and round in circles. All we can do is lobby DS to release Poser Pro 2 as soon as possible. What would help would be a Statement of Intention, but they don't seem to do those. I don't know why they don't, it doesn't need to include a date, just an indication of approximate time, like "4th quarter 2009" or whatever.