Bryce has been left to languish so long that I'm afraid it may never recover. The decline of each company that has owned and developed it and the growth of Bryce's competition certainly hasn't helped either. I'm with you Zandar in that I've moved on to using higher end software, but now and then I return to Bryce when it helps me do something faster and with more ease then I might be able to do in another software package. Yes, there are still those rare moments. :) And as mentioned by foleypro, when I do use Bryce I'm very careful about scene setup and rendering setting with tregard to how they affect rendering times.