idova... just reformatted and reinstalled 2 weeks prior to getting Poser 5. I understand what you are saying....and are probably correct that it is maybe a problem on our machines....however, the product was shipped incomplete and with known bugs...most which were deemed uncritical....Now..what is critical...probably BSOD, no loads, etc etc.... However, the non-critical bugs can be critical as well to certain users, if you can't use the program, that's pretty critical IMO. Is it my responsibility to go through all the Dlls on my machine to figure out which is bad...uninstall all my software to get P5 running ??? No way.... And I have not heard back from CL tech support even once on any of the bug reports I have sent in...oither than prior to SR-1...it was on a render lockup I was having...and it was caused by my inadvertantly have displacement channel active on the strand hair...it couldn't do displacement on the hair...my error.

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