I have XP-- sorry, a friend came over and insisted I be sociable-- and this is the first time this has happened with XP. I usually like to render at twice the size of the final piece so I can clean up joints and hair better, and get more detail. Pentium 4, 1.7GigMhz processor, 512 RAM which is max on this machine. You know what's weirder? I sized up the display window to over 1000 pix and rendered in the window just fine-- with all the scenery put back! This is after it had told me there was insufficient disk to render to another window at 1000 72 dpi. Needless to say, I saved that puppy quick and will finish the pic later tonight. I have a monster Poser folder. Which might be part of the prob, I also have a new FireWire HardDrive I'm going to put in that's 120 G-- just for Poser-- the firewire card just arrived. I didnt want to have to swap it though before finishing this render because you know how many things can go wrong when you add hardware. And then move Poser to it. It was strictly rendering to a new window that killed it. Fortunately I have a big screen-- this is a portable but it's a bigger screen with a bigger resolution than my desktop-- 16 inch LCD, 1700 something res, I could have made the display screen 1500 and rendered that way. It's just a bit easier to lose the render. Emily