I just thought it was interesting results. This was a simple scene no dynamic, but high res textures w/ both GI and 3pt.Pretty sure soft shadows was on. I luckily have not gotten ashes yet.Kinda creepy looking :)Only 640x480 tho. I just wanted to see if it really made that big of a diff.I also don't have layers list. I haven't been able to really take the time to test, but I thing parametric/layers list are just slower. I have had a 1 tree take forever and recently throw me out of carrara.It maybe only certain models. All of a sudden carrara is just gone in a couple secounds and I a looking at my desktop going whaaaa?

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.