Thank you all for the suggestions, I shall take into consideration each as it fits. My scene is very complex, and yes, I do need more ram. I had another stick of 512 installed, but it was slower than the DDR 400. I was told to take it out to speed up performance, but another friend tells me in this case 1 gig of non-matching memory is still fast than 512mb of one type. Also, I am aware of layering the scene and constructing it in PS, but there are elements that will be very tricky to redo. I did turn down dpi to 72, no filtering as I add gaussian blur in PS anyway, no raytracing, but I do have some objects in the close foreground so I have smooth polys and remove backface on. I will try this and render to a new window at 1024X768 again and see what happens. Hopefully something truly magical! I do have Vue 5, and I prefer that engine leaps and bounds over Poser, but it's a hog with big scenes, as well. One scene I did took over 20 hours with imported Poser figures and the like. Looks like either layering or buying a super computer is in order. Vue is terrific, but I tend to want all the bells and whistles with atmospherics, GI, and radiosity turned on - now that can take some time to render! I'll see what happens, and I appreciate your comments. Wish me luck and I'll post a follow up regardless of outcome. Thanks again!