Forgot to mention that I'm using a GeForce 4 64MB card with TV-out, but... no, the program sadly doesn't use hardware acceleration at all. A problem which is a severe lack in any 3D program released since, oh, Windows NT 4 if not before. This , if nothing else, will be one reason that people flock to check out DAZ Studio - it's promise of a working environment at Poser4-or-better render quality. While posing. Including transparencies. But I digress... Don't forget that a lot of the "little or no problem" users not only have PC's designed to cope with Poser5's requirements (CPU, RAM by the giga-bucket) but also there is room for the program to have trained us. In other words, we know (to some degree or other) what's likely not to work, and so we don't do it. I have no statistics to back that up, and I know I tend to punish my machine when I have enough time to use it, but it's a thought to bear in mind. Certainly some who have long-standing gripes with the program are absolutely justified in having been plagued by quite easily repeatable issues. But for the less common problems... too many variables, methinks, to pin it down in one quick poll :( Cheers, Cliff