Geez, I really wonder what's up with your system, that you find CS slow... I mean I have been using Carrara Studio for a couple of years now directly because not only do I like it's rendering, but more so when I was working with my celeron 266, Carrara was the only app which allowed me to assemble higher poly scenes without much difficulty... and that was with a 128 bit ATI 16 meg card... Then I got a celeron 400, and a slightly faster and larger but still cheapy hercules card, but still only had 192 megs of sdram on the system, and all was super... Now I have a quicker amd 2200+, with a cheapy 32 meg geforce 2 card, the gimped 128 bit model, and have but 256 megs of ddr, and Carrara really does rock all over all other apps for speed of moving things around when assembling scenes.... hmmm