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No & no!

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No it isn't, it's an extremely competant product which has a few minor irritants, many of which may be overcome by care.  You cannot compare Vue with Terragen, because although TG is a very good landscape generator, that's all it does in it's current version.

How much memory do you have?  2meg is ideal, 1 meg and you may well struggle occasionally.  How much of that memory is actually available to Vue - ie is your system clogged up with uneccessary background processes before you even start the programme?  How many icons are sitting in your system tray?  Each one of those is using system resources which are therefore not available to Vue.

Don't import Poser objects as PZ3, save them as .VOB first and then bring them in, and remember to "collapse identical materials" as you do so.

The last upgrade did have a problem, I believe that several people dowloaded a version which was bugged before the problem was fixed.  Try downloading again and re-updating.

I am running the latest update, using Poser 6 and rarely have problems.  Judging from the number of Vue pictures in the gallery which contain Poser images, I am not alone.