Quote - My P7 is still on the CD. I know that in P6, once you exceed your memory, a texture (skin, etc) gets dumped off and you cannot reload it until you reboot. Mostly to free up some memory again. I'm guessing! ...but, perhaps "secondary" textures(bumpmaps) get dumped instead in P7 so, to not lose the render..but to free up memory. They said "better mewmory management" in P7 yet, it has to come from somewhere. You need stewer. Do you know him?

Yes I know stewer and No this is definitely NOT the issue here, the sample you see above is just One small little prop (temple corner from PoserWorld), it is a new scene from a fresh open of Poser I did just for this example to rule out any such issues (and I have done plenty testing first before complaining - read my opening 'note' in first post).

This sample shown here is just a PP2 of only 902k with no external geometry and the total textures only come to 8.7meg
I render Full Scenes of 200~300meg all time....plus, as mentioned multiple times above; Poser 6 has No Issues with these very files and scenes.

Nope, no memory issue, its just plain BAD CODING on the developer's part...oh, and p*ss poor quality control to not have seen such issues....IMO