Just to be clear....

You are rendering a scene while this is going on with your Task Manager?

If so, this is not uncommon. The Task Manager will sometimes report Bryce as "not responding" when it is intensively doing something for a long time (I still get it when I am smoothing out a massive imported mesh) Also, if you have switched to some other program, it can be difficult to have Bryce pop back up.

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