There has got to be something I am doing wrong, or no one in their right mind would be using Bryce 5. I have 600 some odd megs of RAM on a fairly nice machine (PC) I have in my scene: One Victoria, one Vicky's changing pony tail, 2 spawned props of the tail itself, plus textures and transparencies. Nothing else. Default lighting, black BG, anti aliasing off, default render size. The nano preview (which is too small to be any real use but it's better than nothing) itself takes at least 5 minutes to refresh, and the "fast" preview? I have yet to have enough patience to let it get beyond 7%, and that took about an hour This can't be right. At this point, all I'm trying to do is get my material settings right, but I can't do that if I can't see what the heck I'm doing. Can somebody please give me a clue?