For me, this has been a needed, and welcomed update. I pulled my hair out many a times with both P4 and P5, and thus far with P6, the only problems that I've had is porting my runtime directory over, but that was more a user error than anything else. Here's the thing. This program is $300 for the Windows version, and is meant to be a HOBBYIST utility. I don't think that CL really realizes exactly HOW big Poser really is. I agree that there are some bugs that need fixing, but compared to the fubar that was P5, I'll glad deal with them. Also, don't forget that Poser has always had problems running on Windows, even when MetaCreations was doing it. I can remember having a snot load of issues with memory and renders with P4 and Win2K, and I had a gig of ram back then. And what processor are you running mason? My cousin is running an AMD64 3400+ (about $200 right now, give or take a couple of bucks), and P6 runs smooooooooooth as silk. When they give you the minimum requirements, remember that its the bare minimum to even get the program to BOOT UP at, not run well :)