My problem is that even uncomplicated scenes render excruciatingly slow in Poser 8 :(

A simple v4 with hair portrait rendered in the main window takes two hours (compared to 10 minutes in Poser 7) - with indirect lighting it's an all-nighter.

I also can't play a game or watch a video on Youtube while I render - it simply hogs ALL the memory. Will rendering in a separate process fix this, or is there something else I'm doing wrong?

My system is a Dell XPS 420, Intel Dual Core 2.33 GHz, 3326 MB RAM, 32 bit Vista