Never had the camera problems and my computer is equivalent to yours, along with the video card. I installed everything the way Little Dragon described. You can expect Poser 5 to be slow starting, it usually is, but sometimes it might surprise you. But Camera probs, never had em. My only prob is occasional freezes at render, cause as far a I cna see random. But i'm having fwer of those with a smaller Poser 5 runtime. I may throw all the Poser 4 people down off of it and see if that helps more. Did you, by any chance have collision control checked with the hair? that's a known problem. Often freezes everything up. Emily