Here's something Ijust got from Martin Frost over at Corn PM...............

"Yeah I think there is a problem with ecos containnig objects. I tried skull piles today and it crashed vue 8.
From what they said to me there is a bug affecting the ecosystem handleing in vue 8 - and i think its a pretty major one... lol
Also there seems to be horrible memory leakage and renders are taking forever!! Back to vue 5 render times for anyhting more complicated than an object on a white background... and thats on a quadcore with 4gb ram!!"

Gill