It may be no a good one, but something pretty similar happened to me... I got a 256 video card and just 1Gb of RAM (pretty poor isn't it?), so when I try batch render my system crash... What I did was, bacth render part by part my scene, so I render 10 by 10 my frames And so, I batch render my scene... It may help you if you are in a hurry... Another thing, I don't know how much does history on objects affect the bacth rendering, so try to remofe all the history from them before start the bacth rendering. Hope it works... Sry for the other post... didn't realize that I post a new Thread.. :headbang: