You are absolutely right Clint, and I have addressed many of those issues. My system complete config is as follows: Dual PII 400 256 mb ram Oxygen VX1 vid card Asus P2B-D mobo WiNT 4.0 (SP6) I generally try to commit all of my resources to the task at hand so I do turn off all background programs prior to running my 3D apps as 3D apps are taxing on the system. I bought Lightwave just over a year ago today and I have not had a single hang-up or let-down since I had and tell it has pushed my machine and both of its processors to the limits and has not crashed yet. Poser also run without a hitch. The level of stability that I get from Poser and Lightwave; I feel that Carrara should be equally stable. I don't get that stability and functionality and that frustrates me because I don't like work-arounds personally. I want the app to do what I paid it to do. Lastly I found that Carrara cannot handle the workload that I request from it. I am high poly-count modeller so I expect alot from my 3D app. If I offended anyone here, I am apologizing in advanced. I noticed that people a these forums get flamed alot for having a different opinion. I have not seen it in this forum yet but in others however, oh yeah, all stops were pulled. I am voicing my opinion on what I think is a bad app. If Carrara had a support system to address all of the problems that exist, It would probably be more forgiving but it seems that part of the support infrastructure stage of the program release was ignored and that is bad on the end-user.