To return briefly to the original problem that was the cause of this thread...
Some of you may remember my posting this image on ashundar a while ago:
http://www.ashundar.com/CPG/displayimage.php?pos=-3616I decided to render it again on 1024x768 with a bit more detail... The crystals are fake rocks, and they're at 150 size. When I started rendering, I got that same memory error, indicating that the memory buffer is too small.
Because I didn't want to give up the better quality render, I decided to do a cropped render. I have finished the bottom half this morning, and the top half is render as we speak.
So it seems when you get a momory error like this, you can render it in several crops and put it together afterwards.
Nice to know...