I fooled with some settings on the file: Changed light properties from "depth shadow map" to "ray tracing" Changed bucket size from 32 to 256, changed texture filtering to 1.000, and enabled "remove backfacing polygons" and changed the texture size to 2048. p4 2.4 gh 1.5 gb ddr ram (266 mhz) win xp home render time went from 258 to 218 seconds