I purchased a character package for V3 awhile back and just got around to using it. The package includes: inj morphs, texture, makeup options, tattoo options, nail options and one outfit with top, undies and shoes. I injected the morphs, added the texture, one tattoo, eye makeup, nail colour, the top, undies, shoes (default textures), added hair and hair texture, a complex global light, and then tried to render it without a background. Usually a single figure such as that will render in about 1/2 hour or less for me. This one took almost 2 hours. I changed the pose and added the Poser World sofa to the scene. After 3 hours I cancelled the render because it seemed stuck at "adding objects". After I pressed cancel, poser indicated that it was cancelling the render. What would cause a single character such as that to take such a long time rendering, even though it was the only figure in the scene, while other characters where I've done essentially the same thing to (inj morphs, texture, makeup, clothing, hair/hair textures, pose, light), takes so much less time? I changed the number in the swap thing for XP to 768. At I did a disk defrag yesterday or the day before and did Adware too. Does the amount of free space on the hard drive impact rendering time? I have a 40 gig hard drive and had 14.8 gigs of space left at that time. I've since burned off some files and deleted them from the computer and now have 19 gigs free space. I am trying to add some content (tubes) to my site, but at the rate of 3 hours per render, it's agonizing :( It's such a beautiful character too.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi