Quote - So what have the people experiencing a lot of crashing tried doing to diagnose the cause of the problem ?

The simplest thing is to switch to SReeD preview to see if that helps, if it does you need to adjust some of the OpenGL preview settings, adjust graphics driver settings, update your graphics drivers or some combination of these.

If you can't stabilise P8 after that, put in a problem report to SM.

No offense Nancy, but I'm not paid to send in bug reports. I am using SReeD and threaded optimisation is off and I have the latest video drivers for my card. The ship, she still leaks. When al else fails me, Poser 6 is still my tried and true friend when it comes to making long animation renders.