Jumped on to DAZ a few years ago, and have invested quite a bit (for a hobbyist), but I'm not on the DAZ sub train in the slightest now. I picked up the odd bit that saves me a lot of time like BJs Camera Manager, quite a bit by Riversoftart, Scene Tools and a few more besides. Always during a sale mind you.

I have a couple of G9 characters, but I try not to use them too often. I run a 12 GB 4070(wish it had twice the RAM) and am quite happy with my G8 and G8.1(miles better face posing for me). In fact, any character I do get that isn't at a bargain bin price on DAZ is usually from Renderhub or Renderosity, and it's always G8/8.1.

Any clothing items I get have to support G8 at the very least.

Btw, they splooged a two week DAZ+ membership on us a few days ago, but I'm not in the market for anything right now but freebies to be honest. I let me DAZ+ membership run out last December, but they have reintroduced yearly memberships (DAZ+/DAZp 100/200). If they do a sale on those, like the year I got for 35 once, I might for a year for 50% off. Apart from that, Premier is for heavy users. I'm not that.

As for Renderosity, I'm a big fan of clothes shopping here. Once again, it has to support G8. G9 support is a bonus to me.

As for hair slowing down stuff, it seems to be random. Once hair slows the session down you have to delete it to fix that. Hiding it won't help. I love AprilYSH hair. Efficient, and you can always jazz it up with Sloshwerks DyeAnotherDay textures. I haven't had this slowdown problem with Biscuits hair though.

@pjz99 , thanks for the freebies. They're one of the reasons I keep checking back to Renderosity.