Well hot-diggerdy-damn you are a fully fledged #@?*ing genius. Why-oh-why did I not know this last week, sigh. Many many thanks, I'm off to revisit a scene I thought was going to be beyond my pc.

This happens in IE when your temp internet files are too big/numerous, delete all your temporary internet files and the situation should be fixed. When this happens to me I don't need to reboot either. Hope this helps Oh, I'm on XP pro.

No need to apologise for your bad english, your english is better than my {insert any other language}. Congratulations on your hot 20 position. Well done

MP: Is that the tile rendering one? Or are you on about another?

Considering networking and monitors I agree MP, I do that already. But it's nice to have a good powerful workstation. Not just for Vue, photoshop which I use alot can use dual processors, although concerning vue, previewing renders at a higher level of detail before I send them to the farm would be good. The fact is that I need a more powerful machine, I've got 1gb mem now and it's fully populated, the threads I see here talk of some scenes requiring 2gb. The processor is 1.7ghz, slow by todays standards. The graphics card is a gforce4 of some model that I can't remember as I type this, so that needs upgrading as indesign (which I also use alot) can display on multiple monitors and I want that functionallity. So in all my thinking is, if I'm going to go get/build a new machine then I may as well go for something that does all, or as much, as I forsee me requiring before my next upgrade cycle. Sorry to ramble, but I'll be taking a great interest in all those computer, graphics card, processor threads in here and elsewhere over the next few weeks. regards Sentinal

Alain, I've not got any of your models but that will probably change soon. I am in sheer admiration for the generosity you show towards this community. This model, as all the others from you I've seen in this forum, looks excellent. Many thanks.

Thanks for the replies, some of the boards I've seen over the past week have been specifically server boards and so have no AGP. I'll have a look see over the next weeks and make a decision. Regarding wireless networking, I've got the whole house wired with cat5, sockets in virtually every room, so I'll have no need for wireless. Better get out of this thread before Guitta pops along with her OT stick :) Once again, many thanks.

I'm following this thread with much interest as I'm considering upgrading soon. The comments about timing are useful, thanks. One thing I am looking for is a dual processor motherboard, anyone out there have any recommendations?

Wonderful, really excellent detail, many thanks.

xdmray: Why don't you post a small screen shot of your desktop?

Cheers MP, good stuff. One thing I like though is the fact that Vue doesn't crash, like not at all. It won't save but it don't fall over either. :/ As to XP, I must admit that the damn things stable. This machine I'm on now has been up since nov 11 and not so much as a wimper, after the rest of MS's OS's this, for me, is a revelation. Like I said before, I'll have a play over the next day or so.

Muggle6: I'm running a 1.7ghz 1gb machine with XP Pro. I was going to say that although I don't know at what level of file size the problem manifests itself, it's always large, however after reading MP's stuff about textures I can say it always fails after Vue fails to load a texture. (This is both 4.12 and Pro) Whilst I'm thinking about it now I reckon MP's on to a winner as the objects and polygons are never huge and compared to others in this thread the file sizes are modest (150mb) but the textures can be large and many of them. (7 x 4000x4000) and thats just the body textures without heads, eyes, clothes etc etc. I will investigate over the next few days.

I've had exactly the same problem recently. I found that as soon as Vue wouldn't import properly (the textures couldn't be found as you said) then Vue wouldn't save the scene without it being corrupt, as far as I can remember the file size of any attempted save was 7kb. I'm with Gebe on the reason, memory. As to the solution ? One thing though, are you following the advice of others here and organising your scene into different layers? I've found that helps. Hope this is of some use, though I fear not :(

Beautiful model, unfortunatley I've got absolutley no use for it at all, but as always, I'm struck by your generosity. Many, many thanks.