Quote - 'Optimizing' is when DS converts the surface info into 3Delight's prefered .TDL format, these .TDL files are temporary files and get deleted when DS is closed.

When importing Poser content DS automatically optimizes the surface info in the background, and it's finished almost as soon as the files are loaded, but on loading a .DAZ scene file it can take it's own sweet time before it starts, if you hit render as soon as the scene is loaded you almost always get hit with 'Optimizing'.

ok, thnx. Something that almost makes sense. While it doesn't explain why it sometime's crashes out, it certainly explains why I have to deal with the optimizing issue. Oddly, it doesn't happen every time I load a scene; however, it certainly explains things I did not know. I guess I'll just be thankful it works right most of the time. Then maybe someday I'll get a super computer that can run circles around this one and my nightmare's will all go away. *shrugs, like that'll ever happen. The more memory I have the harder I make my machine work. Oh well, thnx.

Mark.