Quote - > Quote - I haven't used sleep mode or even screen savers in over 9 years.

Same here, for that very reason. If I have a long render that's going to take all night, I just leave Poser to do it's thing and just turn off the monitor.

(edit): I did have problems with Poser 7 crashing during a render before I switched the render to a separate process. Since then, no crashes.

Laurie

Yeah I just heard that separate process thing might be the solution to my long animations crashing Poser 8 since it opens and closes FFRender for each and every frame and hopefully thereby releases said memory back to the system in large chunks instead of a bunch of small ones. I'm currently on frame 316 of the 801 frame animation and I've added four more characters to the scene as well.

Task manager shows Poser using just under 400 megs of ram and FFrender is using anywhere from 212 Meg to 450 megs and releasing it all back after each frame. I'm also ony using 1 thread now instead of 2. Cross your fingers! I know I am!