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I misread your tone. Sorry. With all the talk of RIAA lawsuits flying around here that comment about a "Having a Legal Copy" probably set me off. The hurricane I just went through probably isn't helping my attitude any either. Again I apologize. I use XP Pro on my workstation too. I'll lay it all out for you. I have a VERY small network. By that I mean two machines. My XP workstation and my 2003 Server. I want choice B that you listed above because I am interested in doing animations with render cow running on the server (because that's the only other machine I have. I need it to be a web server for when I am developing and testing web applications). Yes I get your point about the network render. But it doesn't apply to my situation. I don't have that many processors. I just want my animations to render faster. I asked Lynn if Vue 4 Pro (and it's Render Cow) would work on 2003. But he got swamped and never answered the question. It may be a leap of faith on my part but I figured if Vue 4 would run on 2003 then Vue 4 Pro would too. I hope so because I am about to shell out the money for Vue 4 Pro based upon that. I haven't converted my server to a workstation. Vue works fine on it with the default installation. I probably wouldn't even be thinking about this if I had to convert to a workstation. I need the server for my work. Microsoft Action Pack Subscription http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/partnermarket/actionpack/actionpackus.aspx MAP is only $299 and gets you a developers copy of XP Pro, Win 2003, SQL Server 2000, MS Office, and a bunch of other stuff. It's a really great deal which Microsoft doesn't advertise much. Go to that link and check it out. My experience with 2003 has been pretty good. It seems to be laid out more logically. By that I mean things are easier, for me at least, to find. Fewer steps required to get something like create a user account, etc. Security has improved a LOT! Everything is disabled by default. If you want a service you have to enable it or in some instances install it. For instance no Blaster Worm if DCOM is off. I'm a web developer so having the .NET framework there from the get go is a plus. Admittedly a small one since all you have to do it patch 2000 to get it.

I tried to be nice in my reply. I really did. First, I did my best to explain the ONLY two questions that you asked me. "Why did I spend so much to have Win 2003 on my server when Windows XP or 2000 is cheaper?" and "Why am I trying to turn my server into a workstation?" I honestly think that cataloging the problems that a person may have when running Vue on Windows 2003 is a benefit to both the Vue community, who may one day be using Windows 2003 when rendering on a network, and to e-on software when they develop their application. Testing Vue was my first step. The next will be Render Cow. The rest of your post seems to be flame bait designed to lure me into an argument about which OS is better suited for a certain purpose. This forum is not the place for that kind of discussion. Perhaps I misread the tone of your post. If I did then I apologize.

It's pretty simple really. I have a MAP subscription (A step below an MSDN Subscription and MUCH cheaper). It gives me pretty much everything Microsoft sells for an annual fee. We already know that Vue works with Win2K but e-on software hasn't announced compatibility with Win2K3 yet so I was curious to see if it would work. Does that clear up the confusion?

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It looks like they fixed it. Pages loading much faster now.

Thanks for the opinions. I ordered both.

Here is the procedure I followed that worked with no problems. My box is running WinXP pro. Poser 5 was already on my system. Installed Vue 4.12 from CD. I ran it to make sure it was working. Installed Vue 4.2 patch. Created a Poser scene to import into Vue. Opened Vue and Imported Poser pz3 file. Vue asked me where Poser was located on my hard drive. I used browse to find the Poser.exe file. Vue validated my Poser 5 serial number and them imported the pz3 file. This step took a LONG TIME so be patient. The result is in my gallery.

How about Windows 2003 support?

Drools.....I WANT!

Lynn replied to my e-mail and is shipping me a replacement disk. Thanks!

Attached Link: My first attempt.

Thanks for the advice. I bought it straight from e-on software via their web site and they shipped it to me directly. I am in the US. I've already written an e-mail message to their support address asking what to do so hopefully they'll reply soon.

I have already installed it (and the 4.2 beta patch) and everything seems to be working fine.

Yeah that's what I figured. I've e-mailed their support folks. Hopefully they'll ship a copy to me soon.