Going back to where the original problem began, I tried rendering the scene, and it crashes. Mind you the same scene rendered from the earlier post, but now C7 refuses to render it.

I tried removing ALL lights from the scene, and to my surprise, C7 CRASHED...

As I watch the task manager, I see no spike in memory usage (unlike before on the other system, I would see the percentage jump way up before a crash) and nothing else "obvious" that I could point out.

This is the new system, I thought Id be beyond this =/

Any clues, advice or ideas now?

And thanks for the help thus far, where would I be w/o you guys?!?

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