How many cr2's in the scene? Were they Millenium 3's, Like V3? How much high density hair or props? How many runtimes do you have associated with Poser 5? All these things effect render time. I don't usually use Gobal lights because shadow maps from lights can take forever. And I like dramatic spots better anyway. Two hours is long but not unheard of, my worst was about 4 hours. Three Unimesh figures took a little over an hour to render with the Poser 4 engine in P5. Forgot one more thing, how big is your hard drive and how many other drives are linked to it? Poser looks everywhere!!??!! for textures if it doesn't find them immediately. Emily