From what I've seen, two things come to mind: 1) Poser, even Poser 5 is a huge bargain by comparison... folks who buy the full-blown versions of Maya, 3DS Max, or Lightwave also are able to purchase a monster Alienware-style box to run it on as a dedicated machine. Poser 5 doesn't run hardware acceleration because CL knows that most Poser users don't have a GeForce2 or better for video, nor a whole lot of machine to play with in the first place. 2) A 256MB stick of RAM is way cheaper than a brand new Radeon/GeForce card, which most Poser users would be forced to purchase if Poser came out as a pure 3D-accel proggie. Even us RDRAM/Rambus-using slobs can save more money that way. Finally, Steve is right. I mean, the minimum machine required for WinXP is something like a PII-300 or so... but it runs like a wounded snail through a bed of wet wallpaper paste on those specs. Now try loading a program on it >:) /P