Laptop??? perhaps your answer lies there. I've got the most powerful desktop I could build, it laughs in the face of Quake 3 and makes benchmarks crash with divide by zero errors, and yet Poser still struggles. I don't think there is a PC in the world that can run a complex scene with Vicky 2 in it and edit smoothly. Rendering time is unimportant but Poser does slow down and starts misbehaving when there are a few advanced characters in a scene. But... try making your laptop 256mb, and then backup your work, fdisk the drive, and reinstall windows and poser. Every now and then, tell windows not to use any virtual memory, reboot, defrag the drive, tell it to manage its own memory again, reboot again. Say once a month, this will keep windows a little happier. And buy Vicky some new exciting underwear. Maybe shes feeling neglected and causing this crash herself.