That was my experiance with Genesis in the C8.5 beta. I tried to work with genesis but usually ended up back with the mil4 figures.

Once I got Dawn in to C8.5 she worked as well as Genesis for posing and such. But autofit screwed up most; not all, of her clothes. Since there is no Dawn shape for autofit to work with it sets clothes to a generic genesis body shape.

I know some one was working on this but not sure if they ever completed it. You might check on the hivewire forum because it had to be done for her to work properly in studio. So don't abandon her, check around and make sure you have the basics to use her in studio and she should work as well as genesis in C8.5; which really isn't saying much ;) But she doesn't work to well right out of the box.