Quote - Rod, it sounds like you have a pretty sturdy system spec. Hair can seriously bog a system down. You should research some threads about rendeing and IDL in Poser 8 and get some render settings, then create a series of different render settings; basic, mid and final.

I'll often get everything set and bring the hair in last as it's the render hog (imo).

Hey, Ray! Good to hear from ya!

If I ever get these problems ironed out, I've got a cool idea for Dark Rain.....

I've been dorking around with this for a couple days, and have just about come to the same conclusion a couple other folks have - it's not really a problem with Poser, per se. I've installed Poser on my HP laptop running Vista Home Premium with 3 gigs of RAM and two 250-gig HDs. It renders a little slower than the system described above, but so far it does not exhibit the same lockup problems. I've done a few renders of The Girl at about 2000 pixels with no problems. I'll be trying a few more intensive things next week during my vacation.

I'm thinking I may end up doing a reformat-reload of my quad core sustem. It's been a little over a year since I built it, and it's probably time for a reload - it's acting a little squirrely on other applications as well.

Thanks, everyone for your input!! If anyone has further ideas or input, I'm all ears (or eyes..)

Rod

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