Morning all and thanks for the replies.

I'm running an AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1.67 GHz with 1 Gig RAM. The OS is XP pro. The Graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 5500. Never had any trouble with this set up before and there have been no hardware changes. I've uninstalled a couple of old games that may have caused a problem, especially one called 'Fighting Steel' which used a thing called 'Indeo' (i think... something like that). But even then, i've played that game before with no problems to Poser.

I've changed the Pz3 and used everything from the basic poser figures to the M3 figure as the startup, all with the same result. Ah, that's a point. I didn't mention that the figure is actually invisible on the screen. You only know it is there when you run the mouse over it and the body part is highlighted. The body parts can be grabbed and moved too. But when it comes to rendering the processor is running at 100% but either the 'out of memory' message appears or the prog just stops responding.

According to Windows, the drive Poser is on does not need defraging but I ran the pagedefrag util and that didn't change anything either i'm afraid.

Jack