I liked your example better.

Well, I tried it.  Set to the same specs.  I'm making a 900 frame video, replaced the hair, set the specs, and it just seems to lock windows up.  It "may" not be locking up, as windows sucks sometimes and says "not responding" when really it is still working, but I waited pretty long to recalc the hair, and the Jessie dynamic hair never took this long before so there is something it doesn't like.  Fairy certain I have enough memory etc. P6 with 12 gb's, Win7 64bit.  Should handle it, and it's not even a render, its just a hair calculation.  But, this always seems to happen to me so it's nothing new.

I do appreciate the help, but it's taking too much time and I need to finish the video.

 

Thanks again.