Hi folks, thanks for the replies!

I am rendering in a separate process and also rendering in background.

Upgrading the memory would be awesome, but I'm technically homeless at the moment, with precious little money, so I can't do that for a while, at least not until I have my own place to live instead of this crappy shelter for which they charge unreasonable amounts, lol!

Hmmm, Queue Manager has always crashed for me. I have some old PC's which have been given to me from Freegle, Trash Nothing etc, which I took to build a render farm with, but just haven't had the money to make something of (all of them need hard drives and power leads, at the very least). I'm not sure of their specs, but hopefully it doesn't really matter too much, right? If I have, say, four PC's just dealing with renders, they could take a few days to complete renders and it wouldn't hurt too much... or am I totally getting this wrong?

I think my power supply is the best for my spec, but I'll look into it, thanks. My CPU rarely hits the top of the charts, it's usually memory that does that.

As for how many objects are in my scenes... well... lots and lots and lots, lol! Not all the time, there has been a scene where I've had only V4, a chair and a black skydome, using volumetric lighting, and it has still taken ages. The latest scene I'm rendering is in Annie's Attic, which is a loft apartment for my main character, Annie. Anyone who happens to have seen it should know that there are loads of objects in there... she even has onions and a pack of sticky notes! Still not enough though... many women tend to be cluttermonsters, or, at the very least, have some portion of their abode which is cluttered! Needs more clutter! ;)

Cheers folks!

Glen.

I'm running Win 10 Pro 32GB RAM Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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Peace, love and polygons!