Yepyep, Bryce takes forever to render, which is one of the reasons I got bryce 5 so I can hookup a few gig computers together to get over this bryce render "bug" as some would say. As for the video card thing, the only difference the video card play, is how fast the picture is refreshed on the screen when rendering, it has nothing to do with the rendering itself. Also, antialiasing is a big issue.. which it really shouldn't be, because it hardly makes a difference on the outcome of the picture, it just multiplies the rendering time by 400%.. grrr