Quote - I don't mean to be blunt, but who says I don't use Poser figures? Its best to ask than assume, and yes I have many scenes with Poser figures in, a couple published others not, and while I have had a slow down I have not had OOM errors before and had no real problems importing a few figures with 3GB's of ram.

I wrote about Generation 4 characters as M4 and V4. Just load an old M2 and then a new M4 model into Vue and see the difference in amount of polygons yourself. So of course you need more RAM when you're using them often and many of them.

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My previous comments were for clarification that even though offrench had OOM errors with 4GB with Vista(even though only just over 3GB is addressable) I infact have not had those errors so don't be put off in getting less ram if its not in your budget :) 

I recommend to work on 64bit, XP Pro it uses less RAM than Vista and works well with Vue and other 3D software because there is no Vista choking away the RAM for unused background programs.