You're welcome! Just passing on what I either learned from others, or the hard way. You can set up test scenes and play with where things are ordered, and see the difference that a little planning can make easily. Jot; What kind of system specs have you got, and what OS? Hyperthreading can cause more headaches than it cures, simply due to the fact that -everything- in the pipeline has to be coded to take advantage of it for things to be stable. VuePro -is- optimized to make use of it, but the OS has to play nice first. Try disabling HT in the BIOS, then run a test render of a show stopper. If things finish, then you have the culprit. If not, your Vue install may be flaked; or possibly some other app is running in the background that insists on CPU priority. I've noticed that Vue is very touchy about sharing at certain times during a render, and having something wrest priority from it will cause it to freeze (some of the mp3 software players are infamous for doing that). And once you set up a rendergarden, you will love it. And the RenderCow system is one of the least painful out there. And once Mover 5 comes out, with that lovely support for the Poser 5 dynamics..... (drooooool...)