That1guy, you are not alone. It sounds like you have plenty of machine but being an XP user myself, and experiencing some of the same woes, I wonder if Carrara1.1 was really designed to run on that platform. Sorry I can't offer any advice since I couldn't find a fix to my problems but if you ever come across a fix or workaround PLEASE let me know so that I can use my program again. It is useless on my machine. Best of luck! SET