Quote - Poser9 is 32 bit, and you do not say what OS you are running.

I think you are boucing in the 2GB Memory limiter.

Monitor your Memory consumption during the renders.

What bucket size?
Reduce bucket size to 16 or 8 or 4 to get the renders to finish.
And set MSR to 1.

And is texture catching enabled in General preferences? => Enable it.
And set all textures to quality or crisp. (Crisp is better.)

And??? What lights, and how many??????

Hmm, not sure what the 2gig memory limiter is. I am using Windows 8 professional 64 bit and Poser 9. I know P9 is 32 bit and have considered Pro to get past that but can't really justify the cost of it for my uses and experience level.

As for what lights, not sure which ones now but I think it is a DM set and there are 5 that I have tweaked a bit.

I'm about to have another go at it using your settings from the next message so thanks for those :)