Wow...three days, dozens of attempts and not one even remotely successful simulation. I don't know where to start. It could be (probably?) related to my unusual computer layout so I'll start there.

Win7 64 bit and NOT connected to the net so there's AV or firewalls. All excess Windows crap is shut off so it boots in a couple of seconds.

C (an SSD)-is for windows only. I don't let anything store it's files or temp there.

D (a partition on the SSD) is for programs only and again, nobody stores temp stuff or data there.

F My graphics drive where my runtimes and Daz content live. All my graphics for still and 3D live here.

There are more drives for video and motion graphics but they don't matter.

While I have Poser, I treated the install as if I didn't. The VWD folder went to the root of C: and the Daz bridge stuff went (as instructed in the pdf) in F:Daz Content/My Daz 3D Library/Scripts/VWD Bridge. I had to create the "Daz My Library" directory since I didn't have one (I hate how Daz wants one to arrange their content).

The bridge starts fine and I followed the tutorials (my French NOT being as rusty as I thought it was). I went big to start, with V4 sporting a ton of Bridal wear, long skirt, train and a long veil. Things went fine until 'nail to collision'. It locked up and I had to use Process Explorer (PE) to kill it and Daz. It seems that the VWD would go to 25% CPU usage and stay. Even after it was killed in PE, Daz would now be at 25% and unresponsive, forcing a kill in PE. I went progressively simpler and simpler finding that it was impossible to grab just one layer-row of pixels since so many of the items I was using had more than one layer. Finally I gave up and tried using a simple small plane turned into a figure and pinned above her head. I wanted to make it drape down like a veil. That actually worked for a few iterations until suddenly, the plane shot off the screen somewhere. Aaaand of course, I had to kill VWD with PE and then Daz too. I then resorted to very simple scenes with V4 and a simple negligee. That started draping then Wham it shot off the screen. Both VWD and Daz needed to be killed with PE. During all this I only had one actual error message. Yes, I dutifully deleted Exchange files every time I started VWD.

Got any ideas?