Well the scene I'm working on that prompted me to write this is about 4.5 GB. Three figures with clothes and hair and a whole bunch of props.

I do use raytraced shadows yes, but I'm not going for ultra realism, more like artistic effect, so I also have alot of lights that use shadow maps too.

Bucket size is set to 64. Windows 7 x64, 8 GB 1064 RAM, Pentium quad core Q9550 (2.83 ghz slightly OCd to 3.1 ghz and very stable btw. )

Like I said, after it finishes that first render, all the others fly by. Surprisingly fast, really - much quicker than Poser 7 Pro Pack ever was.

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