I have this same issue in 7.1. I have a 110MB file with a lot of PNG face-me landscape and its also around 40 scenes. It will not animate and just crashes. I took the file home to my personal computer that has 64 bit Vista and 8GM of RAM (not sure if sketchup even cares about that considering its 32-bit) but it exports the animations with no crashes on 7.1. I contacted SU Support but they didnt really tell me it was a known issue they were fixing. They told me to reduce the size of the model or I could try using 7.0 again to see if that works. Not really the answer I was looking for. SU is a great, no, **really **great quick modeling program. It is by no means a great animation package though. I'm getting to the point where I have to look at some other software to do animation and rendering as part of my workflow. I have pushed SU to its limits I'm afraid.

Any new developments with this? I saw that there was a new Pro 7 release last week but was disappointed to see that this issue was not addressed. I use large textures as base plans all the time and the biggest complaint I get is that they look "muddy" and the quality is too pixilated. Is there no quick fix for this problem with OpenGL?