I'm not sure what to tell you here...all I can do is say that I have been using DS for over a year and i update every time they come out with a new version and I don't really have any trouble with it...unless I try to load a file that was not made right.  That's something I've found I run into sometimes with the free stuff...lots of wrong paths or missing files.  Sometimes I think ppl get in a hurry and forget..or just get careless.  When I do find something like that ..if I can't fix it myself I just delete it and not fool with it anymore.

My OS is winXP home edition, service pk 2.   My pc is old...1 GHz  with 384 meg ram - AMD athlon (Compaq)  I'm not familiar with Vista and don't intend to get familiar unless they force me..lol

I think if you are having a problem that you can't open a figure there may be something wrong with your install.  Try uninstalling and doing it all over again from the beginning...and go to Daz and do some reading and ask some questions there...at their forums there will also be help and maybe someone who had the problem and figured out what to do.  

Good luck!!  I don't know what I'd do without my DS   :D

 

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