I believe that turning collision on is only the first part of the process.  You need to turn collision on for the various parts of your figure as well.  I believe that by default the figures collision options are off.

If you select a boby part and get its properties window up, there should be a collision checkbox, you should select each body part that the hair is likely to come into contact with.

I think you will then see that the processors have to work harder :)

John

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