I would except that if not the fact that I have rendered images with 27 figures in it using billy-T clothes, mike and both versions of vicky, with high resolution texture maps. Granted win98 is nto geared to decent memory management, however, I have tried this on XP and 2K as well and they have failed as well. Now XP and 2K have better memory management, however, that doesn't correct how poser deals with memory, which is the same regardless of the OS.