I posted a message in the Max forum about my renders crashing, which I thought was due to a lack of ram. I've been working on a Pentium 4 2.4ghz with 768mb ram. I just increased my ram to 1280mb ram. Max still crashes on large rendering scenes, but I am also having problems in Poser: I am working on a Poser scene that has two V3 and one Freak model, along with a pretty substantial set. I can't recall the pz3 file size (I'm at work) but its up there. I've been monitoring the ram usage and when I open the file I'm using about 700mb of ram, when I go to render it shoots up to the limit of about 1.2 gb ram, which I assume the swap file takes over from there. I had big (detailed) texture maps on all the models. When I tried to render, it started to about 5% and then just stopped! I decreased the texture map on one of the models from about 1600x1200 to 800x600, there is a visible loss in quality, but at least I can get the render completed. Anyway, I just wanted to know if there was anything else I could try that I haven't thought of. My swap file is on the D drive and set to a very large size, so I don't think increasing that would help. Thanks for any advice, pzrite