Quote - As I mentioned in another thread in Poser Technical, virtual memory will not magically give your application more memory beyond the 2GB limit.

If you have 2GB of physical memory and want to have as much of available as possible, a starting point is to free up as much of it as possible.  Ways to do this are (Windows only):

Close other applications when not in use but when you are using Poser.

Turn off Windows bells & whistles - Control Panel:System:Advanced:Performance->Adjust for best performance.

Remove any 'junk' from your Program -> Startup Menu.

Remove any 'junk' from your SysTray.  For things that I can't seem to find in the Registry to stop loading or might need on occasion (like wcescomm), I just open Task Manager, go to the Process tab, select the process, and hit Delete.  If you have iTunes and are not using it, you can safely delete the iPod and iTunesHelper processes.

In Control Panel:Administrative Tools:Services, set unwanted services to disable or manual.  Be cautious here - there are websites that describe the basic services and whether you may or may not want to disable them.  These are good candidates for disable:
    - Messenger
    - NetMeeting Remote Desktop
    - Remote * (good for security as well!)
    - Telnet
    - Terminal Services
Anything that isn't critical and involves 'remote' users doing something on your system are pretty good game for disabling - unless you do lots of that type of thing.

Use Task Manager's Performance tab - Physical Memory:Available as a good indicator of how well you are doing in freeing memory.  With 3GB, I read 2.6GB available (with FireFox and NAV running!).

Sweet, sweet memories. :)

ETA: If you are really serious about having optimal memory, disable your internet connection and then turn off AV while using Poser as well.

Sounds like alot of trouble to go to to do a render. I ran into the same problem with a P6 and P7 render but nothing Poser suggested worked. I've got a 3 GHz hyperthreading processor and 4GB RAM. e-Frontier should rewrite Poser using a different render engine. That render I was trying in P6 and P7 and neither of them could render it..well, I opened it in DAZ Studio and it rendered without any problems. I'm a Poser user (not Studio) and Poser is a memory hog from hell.