Check your rendering options, as well. With Firefly, my best trick is to add options slowly (displacement, raytracing, etc. ) only as I need them. My preview renders with 40,000 vert hair styles run about 2 - 5 minutes, while my final renders have been running me 15 - 45 minutes (at 2000x2000, 150 dpi). Firefly will be somewhat slower than P4's renderer... just the nature of the beast. When I render in softimage, by contrast, I only turn on Mental Ray when I'm ready to go production, and have time to wait. On my wishlist for P6 is a network renderer. For the record, my P5 machine specs are: 2.8 GHz Pentium 512 Mb RAM Windows 2K Pro The rest doesn't matter for Poser, but in case you're curious, I use a 256 Mb NVidia DX 9 card.