I have Bryce 3d and I want to upgrade to B5 but I have read quite a few posts in wich people complained about the upgrade not working and they had to call Corel for some type of code to make it work. Has this been solved? Also I have a Pentium 200 with 128 megs of RAM. Is this enough for B5? I read people with powerful machines having B5 totally hoging their systems and people with more modest machines having no problem at all. Has anybody detected some seriuous bugs with B5 that merits a patch? Also if I am not mistaken the concesus was that for Bryce a 1.2 AMD Athlon was better than ht ecurent pentiums, is this accurate? Thanks, Andres.

128 megs of ram is the recommended amount of ram...ram is alot cheaper to buy now you should get an upgrade. bryce 5 is way better than 3 you should upgrade.it has a few bugs still but I think it was worth the upgrade

will try my best to answer your questions The upgrade from Bryce 3d will require you to call for a serial number. I wouldn't try to run it on a p 200 w/ 128 meg but it is within the specs. I havent run into any show stopping bugs, actually seems very stable to me so far. Others appear to not be as lucky though. the new 1.2mp amd will outrender all x86 cpu's even the 1.7 ghz p4 Hope that helps Griggs

Thanks for the help guys, It looks like I am overdue for a new computer. Thanks, Andres.

I don't understand why everyone thinks that you have to have a supercomputer to run Bryce(although it would be nice!) This may shock many of you , so grab a hold of something! I'm running Bryce on 2 computers, one of them has a Pentium 150 with 80 Megs of RAM. The other has a Celeron 333 with 64 Megs of RAM. I always hear a lot of people complain about the rendering speed of Bryce 5. I've rendered volumetric clouds in an image that was default size (540 x 405) in just over an hour and a half. I don't think that that is too long to wait for an image to render. Like I've heard someone say: "The image will spend more time being finished than it will spend rendering." So have a little patience, it'll finish! I love the program and I haven't had a problem with it yet. I say go for it! ;-)

I give up after 20 minutes. Have an athelon 550 with 229 ram.

I have a Pentium 3-933 and it was 20 minutes to render my latest picture (in the trial version while I wait for Corel's shipment), though if I zoomed in on any part, it took much longer which I'm not sure why). Anyway, it was the anti-aliasing that killed me. Even on the simplest setting, it seemed to take forever. There is an optimization setting in render options that if you set to Aggressive seems to speed things up. It does seem to be significantly slower than Bryce 4. It would be interesting to see how long Bryce 4 would take, but I don't think you can load a .br5 file into Bryce 4 (can you?)

Andres Just be sure you're running at least Win98. Bryce is a no go on Win95. Spit