Other speed-up tips just occurred to me that may or may not be obvious: In Windows, Poser defaults to "normal" thread priority. CTRL+ALT+DELETE and choose Task Manager. Click on the "Processes" tab. Find Poser.exe in the list of active processes, right-click on it: "Set Priority" appears. Choose "AboveNormal" or "High." Choose "yes" when you get the scary scary message from Mr. Gates about changing process priority. This will work best (and be less likely to cause any conflicts or stability issues) if you're not running other programs (besides antivirus, firewall, stuff you need.) Don't be surfing the 'net at render time. Turn off iTunes, the new Beck album can wait. Don't rip CDs, don't watch DVDs. For those with less than 1GB memory, save your scene when you're ready to render, shut down Poser and restart your computer. On reboot, restart Poser and render before doing anything else. This is especially helpful if you've already rendered whole or partical scenes. You want your final render to be the first of your current Poser session, especially if you have multiple props or figures in the scene. And of course, defragment your hard drive once a month, especially if you do a lot of downloading, installing, and uninstalling. You know you do. All Poser addicts do. :-)