Casette - sorry you are having problems with FF. The FF settings I use are: Texture Filtering OFF Shadows ON Raytracing OFF (unless I've got Ambient Occlusion, R/Trace Shadows or Eye Reflects). If so, use 2 bounces. Min Shading Rate 0.5 (lower if hair is rendering grainy) Pixel Samples 3 Max Texture Size 4096 Max Bucket Size 64 Smooth Polys ON Use Disp Maps ON DOF usually OFF 3D Motion Blur OFF Remove Backfacing Polys OFF These setting produce crystal clear renders (check my gallery - they are all no postwork). Based on these settings (r/trace off), with 1 or 2 lights with shadows ON, at 900x900 I wouldn't expect a render to take much more than 10mins - and that's with really BIG texturemaps. Once I add AO and r/trace eye reflects I'm looking at 30mins. And DOF will (depending on the fStop) blow that out to a couple of hours. In the last 6 months, I haven't had a render crash - not once. Hope that helps.

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