Hi,

I seem to remember an issue back in the C3 days from the Nvidia card I was using. The problem popped up when I had the Nvidia drivers set to force full screen antialiasing. If I launched Carrara and used OpenGL in the 3dView within seconds I'd get a BSOD. You may want to try setting the nvidia control panel so that the application decides for FSAA. If want to get fancy, you can also set up profiles so that it works that way for Carrara, but still does AA for your games.

If that doesn't work, the software renderer is certainly usable. I still use that today on C4 and C5 beta for much of my work because I work over remote desktop to my laptop.

Good Luck,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins