The only time I've ever seen Poser hang the way you guys are describing it, it basically has little to nothing to do with your hardware. The configurations you guys are using are plenty good enough to handle this stuff. I'd be willing to bet that the people who are having these problems with indefinate render hangs are not probably using Win98 or ME. I've had the same problem on Win98 machines, but I've never had it hang like that a single time on a machine running XP. Runinrebel, shorterbus, what OS are you guys using? My money says it's not Win XP or Win2000...