I think, of all my high(er) end apps, poser is the absolute worst about hogging resources. I've got 512 MB RAM and poser is on an 80 gig drive w/40 MB free, also have a half full 40 gig drive for my sys apps. Now here's the deal, your program will open and run more smoothly if you free up drive space. If you have room in your PC for another HD, I recommend saving up for a 7200 RPM drive roughly twice the size of your current one, make that your D: drive and put all your big apps and image/music archives on that one to free up your C:drive so your windows will run better/smoother. (Also do periodic defrags and disk cleanups) Now, for memory: more is always better, get as much as possible. (I'm getting more soon) I say bare minimum have 256 for poser to work properly. (For great high-res renders, have alot more) You can buy memory right now for really cheap, 256 meg DIMMS are on eBay all the time for around 35-50 bucks. (check for compatability) Also, your CPU is a factor to consider when rendering, Obviously the faster it is, the faster it renders. The fact that you have Windows 98 does factor into poor poser performance as well, since it leaks memory, the best ways to solve this in ascending order are... 1. constantly save and reboot 2. buy a memory manager that will allocate RAM for you and free it up periodically 3. Upgrade to Windows XP. Its stability is far greater and it manages your resources better. (sorry for the long post, but thats what you get for being tech support)