Win 98 second addition about 34 gigs free yes I have run scandisk and defraged and am up to date on windows updates I never noticed a render problem till now although I never tried to render to characters in a scene before..the shot has vicky 2 and the spywear clothes and the 57 chevy from the free stuff it renders in the poser window but when I try it in a new window it kills windows oe 0028:c0059c8b error whatever that is it requires a reboot to get out of it