Hey folks, glad you like Zeux here. Maybe I'll let you go and feed him his dinner one night? Anyway I am surprised to the reaction of Carrara on your systems? unless well I was going to say RAM but in your case Kaom that is not the issue? I do have to say a few months ago their was an Isssue about Carrara's reaction to Dual processor's and Athlon processor's. I will have to take a guess that video card does play a key role here? I am on a Dell Dimension X single PIII 450mhz, 256MB of RAM, and a Oxygen-VX1 for video card (really good PC graphics card for $150, next best thing to a professional graphics card at an affordable price). My system slows a bit but not too much at 14,000 polys in a single mesh in the vertex room, anything above a 25,000 it get's really slow. As a matter of fact I was just playing around and at a 112,700 poly count it slowed quite a bit but not to the point where I get rendering failed or the screen goes gray. That is a fairly powerfull system you're running Kaom I can't see why you're system goes silly with only manipulating a 40 poly count sphere? If you have some 2D paint programs like photoshop, check to see how much RAM you have assigend to it and also Carrara is not quite stable running at the same time with any other program. So also try to use it without having another program running and see what kind of results you get, let me know what happens I am quite curious? Love and Peace Serge