I believe you are the exception and not the rule. E-on now has a track record of creating unstable software. And it is shame if they are trying to break into the Pro market, as no one would use this software because of its quirkiness. I mostly do hobby animation, so it's not critical. But when I do need to use my software professionally (like animation for a hologram), I will never use Vue, I always go back to Bryce (or even Poser at times) because I know it's not going to crash on me or add bizzarre things to the animation.

Vue 4 did not become stable for me until version 4.2, and even then it has some serious problems. Vue Pro, as I have mentioned, is very unstable. My machine is basically a pure graphics and video editing station. I am hyper-aware of system performance -- I admit I'm a techno-geek. My system is at its optimum.

But equally if not more important is the fact that no other software behaves this way, and Vue has acted like this in all its iterations. No other software I own (from the simple Cool3D to After Effects to 3DSMaxEven to my realtime video editing software) has these problems whatsoever. Even POSER 5 crashes less often (actually almost never now, other then during certain renders) than Vue.

-Tim