You bought a P4... Why? Other than that, poser runs fine on XP, I did a render "test" on my laptop, once I'd beefed up the RAM to 512Mb with 4 characters, SMV, VV2, Mia and a free character I forget the name of :) Clothed them in Asia & Noa, Mia and one other (fairly hires) as well as the DAZ "updo", Flip hair, and the wedgecut and one of Kozaburo's creations, as well as clothes by Phil C and Billy T (saves out as a 50Mb file) and it rendered without a hitch at 3000 x 3000, took a while, but it worked. Now considering that before I couldn't get vicky 2 to render if I had both updo and skin texture loaded, (it just hung) I consider the test a success! :) It's still terminally flaky if you try to tweak outside of what is allowed in "idiot" mode, I'm going to re-install this weekend I think, but poser has no problems at all. later jb