Hi Karayo29,

I got a little help from Bagginsbill at another thread but for some dumb reason I can not find the thread anymore. It is under my user name but I'll be damned if I can find it again.

Anyway, something that Bagginbill said that helped a little was"I bet your min shade rate is set to .5 or less. BIG mistake".
So, when I went to render a picture that had been giving me a LOT of trouble again, I first set my preferences in Auto then switched to Manual and chose "Aquire Settings From Auto" then - still in the manual render screen - I went down to the setting for Min Shade Rate and bumped it up from .5 to 1 and low-and-behold I was finally able to get through a high uality render and save it before Poser 8 crashed trying to go back to the Pose window.

My knowledge is limited so I am not really sure what I was doing by adjusting the Min Shade Rate but it worked.

I am still getting crashes and just finished submitting a help message at Smith Micro with ALL my sytem specs included. Hope I get some help.

I will post to this thread if anything significant comes of it.