It's what it says. 1200X966 should be a "big" screen/file and this was on Quality setting before Best.

System: PowerPC G4 on OSX 10.4 w/512MB RAM.

With movies, they seem to come out OK though take forever to render though I do not mind, I leave the system alone to figure it out. But this photo rendering - DAMN!

I can see where it is improving things (like Lighting, shadows, and detailed textures) but it is otherwise unusable. Compare:

Screenshot of SH3D of room:
http://www.hondosackett.com/Fernando/3D ... apture.png

Rendering of same room with it's problems:
http://www.hondosackett.com/Fernando/3D ... 0Photo.png