I've had ongoing memory problems with Poser 7 to the point that I finally became so frustrated, I decided to upgrade one of my computers just to run Poser. So I bought a new motherboard and 4 gigs of memory.  When I finished installing the motherboard and ram (which of course required reinstalling Windows XP (32-bit, Service Pack 3) and all of my programs), I opened Poser in anticipation that my memory woes would be a thing of the past. I loaded two V4 characters with high res maps and hair but no clothes. Posed them, lit them, set my render to 1100x1100 pixels, pushed the Render button and was soon greeted with an error message that Poser had insufficient memory to load the texture maps. Huh? All of my computer upgrade time and expense was for nothing?

I'm a seasoned 3D animator. My Lightwave PCs, with 2 gigs of memory, have output complex animations for Imax films and for HD 1080i. But even a modest 2 character scene in Poser brings my computer to its knees.

This really seems to limit the usefulness of Poser. Is there a solution or is this just the way of the Poser world? (I would rather not have to render characters separately since often they are interacting with each other.)
 

Thanks for any suggestions.