Lyne - A couple of things that might help, if you haven't already tried them. Reducing your tile size can help reduce the required RAM when rendering complex scenes, and rendering straight from the batch que without opening the Carrara project first will give you the extra RAM needed when the scene is open for rendering (hope this one makes sense, basically your scene is just opened by the renderer, so it uses less RAM).

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