well when i was on 2k my vue would always and i mean always suffer a death when it ran it would shiut down if i was doing a complex scene and yes when i used any thing from poser it would slow my machine down terrible and my pc specs are as follows gygabyte dual bios mobo,gforce 4 titanium 4600 and 1 gig of ddr ram so thats y i switched to xp pro regards seeklight