Thank you both for those useful tips. Will need to collect all that together sometime and put it in a tut. 🙂

VortigensBane Kudos to you man ! Do you have a titan Graphics Card or maybe two ? LOL! Your atmospherics are spot on for this image as well . Very well executed image!!

Like Kibosh said, selecting “memory” under Optimization (why you can’t set that as the default and make it stay that way I don’t know) and reducing all the texture maps to 1/4 original resolution with “Scene Optimizer” were the two biggest, but also, reducing figure resolution to “base” with 0 subdivisions, decimating most of the figures by probably 70%, setting the viewport display to “bounding box,” hiding all body parts which were covered by armor, stopping 90% of the other processes running on my computer, etc., and then just waiting a really, really, long time… 🙂

Apologies for butting into the conversation, I also couldn’t run the meadow grass without crashing when I purchased it (old computer) but selecting “memory” under Render Settings – Optimization and using ‘Scene Optimizer’ has been a massive help for me. (still using the old computer) Mind you, volumetric lighting always seems to quadruple the render time also 🙁

Yeah, my computer has problems with just the meadow grass. Did you use special settings etc to limit memory?