Excellent points - and yes, FyreSpirit, the "max texture size" in Render Options does scale the texture during the load process. I keep mine set to 1024x1024 most of the time, and I have very few problems rendering fairly complex scenes with lots of large textures. This DOES increase the load time, however. I think the high resolution trend in textures to be bordering on the absurd, especially by those vendors who just fill the sucker with a few solid colors and little detail here and there. They might as well have a 256x256 texture for all the detail they have - it is just a monumental waste.