Speaking of multitasking ... I've found that the rest of the system (NOT Poser's interface!) works much better if I use the Windows Task Manager to lower Poser's priority just one notch while it's rendering. That enables me to surf the web, check e-mail, etc. with relatively good performance while the render is taking place - and on the flip side, because web browsing and reading e-mail aren't compute-intensive (some CPU while you're clicking the interface, then back to idle), the render time on Poser isn't adversely affected either. Of course, this only works if you're not running some other CPU-burner ... obviously running video editing or another renderer with the priorities skewed like this is going to stop Poser in its tracks. So will an overly-agressive screen saver ... A "reduce priority while rendering" option might be a nice feature for Poser.