In Windows NT, 2k, ME, and XP, (not 98 though) there is one way to allocate more CPU time to Poser, which does help things out immensely. 1) Start Poser 2) Fire up Task Manager (CTRL + ALT + DEL, then select "Task Manager") 3) Click on the Processes tab 4) Look for "Poser.exe" in the list, and right-click on it... select the "Set Priority" menu item, and choose from the little submenu that pops up. 5) Select "Above Normal", and GO NO HIGHER THAN THAT! 6) Sit back and wonder in awe as your renders happen 33% faster :) WARNING ... at this point, be very careful. The trick is to bump it up a little - not too much. If you get dumb and crank it up to "realtime", I guarantee that you'll lock up your computer hard, since the CPU will ignore Windows itself at that level to pay attention to your process (Poser). Finally, know that you'll have to do this every time you fire up Poser, since unfortunately there's no way to make it a permanent thing in Windows. Also, while you're mucking about and feeling daring, you might want to see if there's other pesky little processes (Real Player, Winamp, etc) that you can throttle back, if not stop, to give Poser even more CPU attention... just be careful and don't stop what you don't recognize (and BTW - explorer.exe should be left alone, bit iexplore.exe can be killed if you want to shut off your web browser :) (I'm used to doing this sort of thing in Unix all the time... there it's called "niceing" or to "make nice" a process. It sort of carried over to Windows with me :)