I'll stick my 2 pence in this thread rather than start a new one as I too, though just a hobbyist, am totally fed up with Vue. I'm on a Mac Powerbook OS 10.4 , 1.5 gig with Vue 5 Inf. I've tried so hard to work with it over the last few months,but it just freezes and crashes over and over again. I've re-installed many times. tried both 5.9 and 5.10. It won't recognise where Poser is on my HD so I can't import pz3s . I followed a tute I found here on optimising rendering times. it froze so badly that the image I'd spent 3 days working on isn't even recoverable now. These are just a few of the reasons I'm deleting it from my HD. It's official, I GIVE UP ON VUE !! Bryce isn't stable on my mac either so I remain with out a viable landscape app. Poser, ZBrush, all Adobe apps, Cheetah 3D even Cararra, all work a treat on my system. I'll only buy Vue 6 if I hear from many many sources that it's rock solid on a mac . I'm well hacked off I ever bought it !

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