Must be hardware...this thing just isn't running at all. For instance, if I'm in the Pose room, then go to the face room...back to the pose room...the face room boxes are still on the screen..but inactive...can't close them. Its as if the previous room does not close down properly and remains behind. This happens in all the rooms, so when I try to go back to a different one, the other windows are still there, making the whole thing unuseable...Then its CTRL-ALT-DELETE.... I've gotten 2 renders off in 3 hours...the rest of the time has been lock ups and retained windows. Another problem..I loaded hi res Judy...hit render..the box came up that it couldn't find the file...asked it I want to search--said yes..it then pooped up again --YES---then the render took place...I think it may have found the file...who knows ???? I defragged my hard drive prior to install....it really seems as if there is not enough memory to do anything...but if this needs more than 512meg for one figure with no clothes, I'm in big trouble...and so are a lot of other folks..... As of this moment, I'd send this back in a heartbeat...but of course I need to torture myself a bit longer :) If it doesn't settly down, I'll try to get in touch with Curious tech support.... Like I said before...I have all new drivers for video, sound, etc..plus SP! for XP...maybe I should go back to old video drivers and ditch XP SP1....would be an interesting experiment.

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