https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3858&p=44554#p44554
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jwarndt
Monday, 19 May 2014, 01:36 AM

Re: Not Enough Memory :(
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[quote user="tda42" post="44550"]I will say this. Poser can be a very memory hungry beast when you have so many things going on in the render. If in some way you find the PC really loading to a point of crashing then reduce the bucket size in the properties of Poser. It may take longer but with less strain. Another bit is to layer it. Render the things in the background you have and them saved as jpg and bring it back as a backdrop. I have a PC that has an I7 Quad Core with 12 gig of memory running with a 64 Bit OS. Some won't have a work horse such as this. I use it because of the Model CAD I make but if anyone is finding it hard and there is more information being used this is what I would do in stages. There is no reason to render a huge one render project unless you are dong an animation. Maybe this will help you I hops so. Best of luck. :)[/quote]

Hi tda42, Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I never received an email notice about your comment and only discovered it by accident.
Thanks for the tips. I'd already used layering on some scenes involving six or seven figures. It's tricky, especially if you're working with shadows, but sometimes there's no other way to do it. Also, I reduce bucket size (to 20) and raise the shading rate. That part is confusing, (HOW can RAISING a value make the rendering go faster?, but apparently it does...) With three or more figures in a scene, I raise it to 50. Three or fewer, I try to use 20. The old pc I use for Poser isn't connected to the web, so it's not slowed down by AV software, and I use taskmanager to turn off just about everything else as well and it's still barely adequate for the job. 
But thanks again.