Flog: If you are running a 'borrowed' copy, presumably installed straight off the CD, it's not going to have the most recent patches, and will be unstable. Download the demo from e-on to give it a true test on your machine.

My experiences with Vue d'Esprit 4 and Pro seem to differ from just about anybody else's! Still, in case it's any help to anybody:

My first experience of Vue was 4.12 on:

W2K Pro
GeForce 3 Ti200
Athlon 1600+
1 Gb RAM

And it was 100% stable, never crashed once in 12 months. Strangely Vue was the only program that did work with that graphics card. The arrival of Pro, and the 4.2 beta, coincided with my MoBo failing and taking the HDs with it :-( So they got installed on my laptop:

XP Pro
Radeon IGP 320M 64Mb
Mobile Athlon 2400+
256 Mb RAM

Again 4.2 was completely stable, Pro choked on large scenes but obviously out of memory. So I put in another 512 Mb and they both developed a problem! As I installed Poser 5, and pointed Vue to it, at the same time it's difficult to say what caused it. Anyhow, both started hanging if I attempted to do anything before all the viewports had finished redrawing, so I disabled the background draw thread. Since that they both seem totally stable, and actually faster.

John