not sure about c violations, but I sure know what you mean about the memory consumption. once I start adding in a buch of high res textures, and move a model around my screen a bit, I've used up alot of my RAM, and I've got 512MB on there, I've got a program that monitors my available memory, so I'm watching it on the taskbar as I do stuff in Poser, hi-res rendering can use up to 200 MB of memory on my machine. Sucks, I know. I'm going to try upping it to 768 MB and maybe finally then I'll be able to have music playing, photoshop open, internet browser open, and model in poser all at the same time.