Spire, The video card should have the lastest upgrades to its driver. I hate to see you still suffering with this... Check system defrag. There should be no red zones. Check for worms. Google for free diagnostics... Check for an overabundance of tempfiles...Cannot specify here. Ask for help. Check for available disc space. Dumb but I maxed 180 gigs last year. Is your pc clean? Have you opened it and can see no debris? You've done a clean reinstall? Saved your Runtime and uninstalled,,,deleted Poser cashe file out of windows explorer, then rebooted...reinstalled poser and its service releases? " First, I'm gonna need a larger hard-drive already since Poser takes up nearly all the space I have now (20 gigs)"... No way to save a Runtime with no available space...this might be the clincher. Did you get more HDrive? Maybe santa can rescue you?