ceba: Yes, they're the specs you need to run P5 at any speed greater than slow. :) I have a dual 1GHz P3, 1.3GB RAM, 50GB HD (How did you afford that laptop? What was it, like $4000?) I'm using W2K Pro and there are definitely issues beyond 'cleaning system'. My install is fresh, as in reformat and reinstall, and only two months old. All drivers, patches, service packs (SP3), and firmware so uptodate that they haven't been released yet. ;0) Loading Hires Don crashes P5 every time on my system, the interface is dying on occassion, and things aren't totally working or correct (invisible material image maps that suddenly appear, eventually; material room can't decide on a compact scene display or the full one; parameters/properties palette keeps appearing when and where it shouldn't; some darn error appears at startup every once in a while; new dial values sometimes take 20-30 seconds to react). Things that I donot see in P4 Pro on the same system. Kuroyume

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