stagehand, I know I'm a little late to jump in here ... but FWIW, I am using Vista as well and I have more ram than you do, and a reasonably quick 64-bit dual processor system, and I find Poser 7 slow as well, slower than any other program I use (and I use some pretty intensive stuff), and slower than previous versions of Poser. I think maybe Poser 7 is just slow -- at least on Vista.