There are few enough animators here, we oughtn't be putting people off trying. I managed well with just a 233 laptop and 64 megabytes. As Virtualsite says, it was slow but it taught me the value of forward planning. Admittedly things got a lot easier with more memory and better speed but I still think the best improvement came with a bigger screen.

Getting back to the thread. Forward planning: it sounds like the machine itself isn't capable of playing the movie for whatever reason. I think you're going to have to do the experimenting you perhaps ought to have done before starting out, not helpful I know but these lessons need to be learnt sometime.

And, just in case anyone with a lesser set-up wants to get into animation, look in the lo-res figures folder. These are great to use as templates for your animations and have a very low demand on hardware. When you've got something you like just swap to the final figure to check how it looks (won't work with Vicky though but does work with Eve).