i7-920?? With 16G RAM?

Even  Poser9 being 32 bit, it should flyyyyyyyyyy...............

Something else is going on.

Do a clean up, and test again.

Ladonna is right also.
Render in a separate process launches the renderer as a separate application that can also use max available RAM.

Removing the checkbox for external binary morph, does seem to make Poser9 more stable untill the SR's fix that too.

But with your CPU and 16G RAM, sorry something else is going on inside your PC.

Clean-clean-clean, and oh, if you find something called Norton?
Open front door, kick out, close front door, live happy ever after.

Install Windows Security Essentials.
And something like IObit malware fighter.

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