My 98SE system is stable enough to work on for days without trouble - but some things it doesn't like. One of them is heavily bloated Poser scenes. Won't render. It doesn't like huge textures and bumps, for instance. Often bringing down tex size a little or leaving out the bump map is enough. But if not.... The little render window pops up and then..... nothing happens. I always sit and watch it, and if/when the app stops, that little window suddenly gets a drop shadow. If it works OK there's no drop. Watch out for the dreaded drop shadow! :-] Only an 'end task' of Poser gets me out. No data loss, but irritating. And Poser won't be healthy and happy for a restart until I've rebooted and cleaned out memory. I have 892MB RAM and PIII 1GHz along lots of gigs of available HD space, no other apps running. So it must be Poser and Win98SE not being on terms about memory and resources. But sometimes even fairly heavy scenes will render - I'm never sure when it will or not. Other stuff works fine - huge files in Photoshop, Sound Forge or Acid Pro, massive projects in Director, Premiere, After Effects, Flash, etc. Never a hang. But system resources, such as memory handling, allocation of IRQs etc, is not 98SE's best thing. I'll be going up to 2K in a couple of weeks - not XP, as my many apps and peculiar hardware are not all supported in XP - yet. :] FishNose