Little suggestion to speed up the orders just setup a paypal account with just a CC on it. Ironically the only site I've used so far for content to ask to wait for a verification has been here.

No clue on the release date but I'd like to see a updated version of it rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of dual cores etc.. I bought version 2 when it came out then let that sit for years, finally upgraded to 4 probably right before 5 came out then just last month finally got around to getting 6. To me it still feels like version 2 so thats why I said I hope they rebuild it, not just slap new features into the same UI. It's dated and sluggish and still relies upon the big icons and subfolders instead of a decent straight forward menu system thats sortable/moveable.

I was mostly looking for general impressions about it so sounds like it was answered. Thanks then, plus after I posted the request I stumbled upon a mini review of it.

Same boat as you memory wise, 2 gigs and even rendering a single character at times it'll pop up. So I've learned to adjust my FF settings when rendering out. Just mess around with your output settings until you hit the combo that you can render at that your comfortable with your output image. Your graphic cards onboard ram has nothing to do in the render pipeline, just for the display of your workplace so if thats sluggish while setting scenes up then yes a newer video card will help. Sad thing is it seems the program only uses actual physical ram and doesn't even bother to hit any virtual/swap that is setup, otherwise 2gig systems wouldn't be hitting this problem.

Also try and composite your final image, render each part say your background out to one file, then your character(s) out to another then edit them in. Just keeping the same settings and dropping them out of your display as you would a limb or such being hidden by a object.

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