Okay, I have not piped in on these discussions (and I use that term loosely!) I have an AMD 2800 with 1GB of RAM and a nVidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB. I am running WinXP with AVG and Wins own Firewall. I just finished a 10 second animation with 8 figures, several of them Mil3 figures. The lighting was simple, due to the nature of the animation, but I had no trouble whatsoever with Memory issues, any crashes, saves, etc... This is not a powerhouse machine, but it is set up for Graphics work only, and no games. I run Works Calendar, IE, Outlook Express, Bookshelf(I can not spell well!), Bryce, Shade, FastCAD, PSP, and Poser along with several other programs at the same time. So far I have not crashed a single program (out of all of these, the most unstable is the stupid Calender and its reminders!). When I had issues in the past similar to what many are describing with other programs, I finally traced it to the latest game and something it had installed on my system to make the game work with my soundcard and video card. I did a complete uninstall of the game and issue went away. Since then I stopped playing games on my machine that I use for work. I do not know if this may be the cause, but I mention it, because some people were having an issue with Norton (I think) at one time.

ratscloset
aka John