Bryce 5 is slower than Bryce 4 at rendering on a single machine. A test case on my machine ran 6:52 under Bryce 4.1 and 7:55 under Bryce 5.0 (on a 850 Mhz/256Meg laptop running windows ME). I hope its easy to set up the network rendering. That'll be exciting, except when the power goes out. Bryce 5 has crashed three times in the last two days. I can't remember the last Bryce 4 crash, but it is rare. Anyone else think that access to the menus is slower? But the trees are good. Bryce worlds were always so lifeless. But where the heck is the grass/weeds labs!