Poser 5 on a PIII/850MHz with 785 MB RAM, a Parhelia with 128 MB RAM, on a Sony 20" >>> even Bryce is a racehorse compaired to Poser5. And: reducing the the screen-resolution?? Maybe set the colours to 256?? You MUST be kidding!! Well, my good old box maybe not the fastest kid around - but it goes along very well with Vue, Bryce, Truespace, ZBrush, Painter, and some other apps. I think there should be some kind of shield against resource-killing software like that. Plain and simple: if it is done this way >> refund! But, it is - sadly - a fact nowadays, that the first thing you do after getting that new proggie (be it a game or a "serious" app), is start looking for patches, updates, bugfixes. Now - please transfer this situation to the moment that you bought your last car (fridge, TV, bike - whatever): you paid for your new car, you opened the door, jumped in ........ only to find that the stearing-wheel just went the left way?? NO, your newly bought "whatever" did just what it was supposed to do, fully functional in every way. For software.......... a 50% NOPE. I always felt I had to say that :)!! Precaution: I am using Poser from the time it was available on the PC, I am running it still, version 4 - Poser5 made it into my trash-can, and this ain't no kidding.