I dont want to hit the panic button just yet, but heres where Im at right now...

Picked up a new HP AMD Phenom X4 2.3GHz 8GB memory 720GB HDD w/ an ATI Radeon HD 3200 system, took 4 hours trying to get used to the installed Vista Home Premium just to install Carrara and my "stuff" into the new system just to have it crash on its 1st test...

I got a little excited, seeing 4 boxes working reaching 42% in 3 minutes (it was taking at least 45 minutes to get to that point on the other system) only to have vista tell me a program has crashed =P

Lets go slow and talk me through EVERYTHING like Ive never heard ANY of it before...

How best to set up my system and Vista to get this to stop happening?!? Is it Carrara and NOT my old pc?!? I just spent -enuff-, so am left clueless now... Maybe not top of the line, but definitely an improvement, so I dont know what to point the finger at.

But yes GKD, it renders fine when I turn the indirect light off... I still think the settings are rather mild, and cant really be cut down much.

Hit me fellas, what to do =)

And thanks so far for all the response... Its really appreciated.

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