dialyn: It is "definitely" not just you! :) And Queri, I find myself in the same boat. I have only a 1.7 ghz PIV with 512 mb ram, so you know I'm not doing a lot of V3 stuff! Plus I only have P5 to boot! Makes me really appreciate Vue d'Esprit and Byrce which you can load with tons of stuff and it doesn't even "grunt"! :) Poser was definitely not designed for creating "epic images" :) If DAZ can accomplish nothing else with DAZ studio but making it possible to do multi-characters and scenes without blowing a memory gasket, it will have accomplished a lot.