OG, RAM is 1gig. Paging file was max 1000meg. I just upped it to 2gig to see what will happen. In watching the processes in Task manager, I added some more columns to the display. I didn't realize P5 used VM when there was still plenty of RAM left. The VM usage would go over 1 gig while the RAM usage never got higher than 600meg. I referred to the wrong mesh earlier, it's not the SS7, it's the Vankwish by Hankster, 446k polys, 336k verts. And it hung on me again with two of them in a scene by themselves with Firefly production mode defaults. I'm trying it again with the increased paging file size and see what happens.