The current hardware "standards" are too wide to mean anything useful. What makes you come to the conclusion that because of the current standards. All machines act the same way under the same conditions if the hardware companies themselves aren't happy about the lack of standards? I thought you were in Tech support? How can someone in Tech support make a statement like that? Are you basing this theory that all parts are created equal through "standards" because Poser5 is the only software you've heard of that won't run on some machines? I just installed P5 on my old PII 266mhz. machine to see if it would do anything strange. The system: PII266mhz cpu 64meg. RAM 4meg. Video card 2Gig HD OS WIN 98SE The program installed and runs perfectly (although extremely slow). Everything from the rendering to the walk designer to the hair and cloth works without a hitch. But so slow it's not much fun. If the hardware standards are so fantastic. Why are people with ten times this machine not even able to launch poser without it crashing? Current hardware standards suck. They always have. Who are you? Better not let your boss here you say things like that. ;-) ScottA