IMHO, you did not waste your money. Vue doesn't do all that Bryce does...and vice-versa. I personally haven't had the problems that others have related, and the only ctd's I've had were when I =knew= I was straining my system resources (three of Steffy ZZ's Breath-Gen textured Vicki 2 characters, with about half a dozen terrain blocks boosted to 1024x1024. I only have 512 meg system ram. Swap file lose it's way, Vue fall down go boom) The troubles that Vue has falls into two general categories; OS limitations regarding memory management (the 98-WinME crowd, which effectively limits them to 512 megs), and driver-Geforce incompatibilites (and 9 times out of 10, turning off the Open GL acceleration option makes those go away). Give it a try, and see.