My real mistake was chiming in without checking things out first. I have only recently begun rendering in Poser in a major way. In the past I mainly used Poser to set things up for export to Vue. I have rendered with settings at the highest levels in SR2 and it was quicker than SR3 with IC off. It was stupid to assume that I had turned off IC in SR2, but you know that already and further elaborating why a stupidity happened won't make it any brighter.

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