Thanks to everyone for all of your suggestions. They are greatly appreciated.

Bucket should take care of itself. There is a tab in prefs to set it up. It reduces itself auto. as needed.

Yes, I have that feature activated. It works sometimes. And sometimes it doesn't.

I set up Max Texture size in manual mode -- Max Texture set to 1026.

Basically, I've used all of the tricks that I am familiar with......these tricks work in some cases. But there's a point beyond which Poser just can't seem to go. And that threshold point is lower than it is for other apps. Poser regularly chokes on renders that other applications (like Vue Infinite) won't even blink over.

I'll try shutting down basic system processes. See if that makes any difference. I'll also try deleting individual objects out of the scene. I've occasionally had problems in the past with P4/P5 scenes where one object -- be it a prop, hair, or something else -- somehow "corrupted" the scene.

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