Thank you for your reply, I have just read it and contacted the vendor ( maybe the good one ).

If I get it right, I have to contact the vendor ( there are three of them for that product ) who has total decision making power on the refund ( which implies each customer isn't given the same service/rights since it's depending on each vendor's good will alone )?

 Thing is every single other piece of software that I have ( and I have other 3D software ) is working flawlessly except for Vue. Drivers have been cleaned and re-installed since. It certainly is related to the card/drivers and it certainly is Vue not resetting or God knows why...

Thanks !

 I have to say Eon support made me edit this file soem time ago ( thoguh I've tried to start Vue numerous time since  ).

I tried to edit the file with your values but it still is crashing.

Drivers are up to date with the latest WHQL Nvidia version. Issues were the same with beta and final drivers though.

Graphic card? That what I was suspecting, but I assume other people are using GTX 470's with Vue so why can't vue reset itself or run in software mode so I can just start it ?

Thanks for your help !

 Sure, it is is :

    <view_env mode="hardware" crash_value="true">

        <!--mode values: wireframe software hardware shader

crash-value values: true, during last launch Vue had crashed / false, everything goes fine during last launch-->

    </view_env>

 I also deleted files from the users folder when I uninstalled Vue :(

I think Vue started to stop working around the time I updated to a GTX 470. I also had installed the beta drivers from Nvidia at the time. Since then I cleaned my drivers and installed the latest offcial ones. I just hope someone had the same unpleasant experience and will be able to help me :)

thanks for your help though ! It is truly appreciated.

 Running as admin, UAC off and I'm using Vue 8 Esprit - 64bit ( with Ecosystem, Ecopainter and Botanica modules ). Thing is I was able to use Vue ( I'm a user since Vue 4 ) before without any specific problem ( except for the bugs Vue had ) but at one point Vue just didn't start anymore.

 Sorry.

Win7 64bit
Intel i930
12GB DDR3
GTX 470

Tried vanilla Vue, official updates and beta updates. Uninstalled and re-installed after cleaning the registry from Eon entries.

You really should take a look at that tutorial !!!
I bought it a couple days ago and that's certainly my best buy for Vue ( excepted for Vue itself of course :)
It includes any necessary lighting, objects and scenes to make similar images...
I was really delighted to see that suc a quality was possible in Vue6!

www.cornucopia3d.com/

You may contact " thip " as he made the original Immortal outfit for PoserStyle...

• 24 ( just the most original series ever ) - Lost ( but starting to be too much "JJ Abrams'ed" ) - Prison Break ( wow, that's ome show ) - CSI : Las Vegas ( my girlfriend is a virologist and buy any dvd CSI related :) - Malcolm in the Middle ( most hilarious thing I've ever seen in a while ) and for the mini-series : Rome and Band of Brothers

A 1Million polys figure with 400 body parts ( to hide bad joints and to avoid using the Smooth Polygons option ) which needs 1 terabyte of RAM to load the morphs ??? :)

Love the way Babelfish ( or similar engine ) translated Mac OS ( "os" meaning "bone" in french ) :) J'ai Poser6, mais malheureusement, je travaille sous XP, je ne peux pas t'aider l..

Just wish they didn't translate the folder names :) When I bought P4 French, characters became "personnages" and libraries = "librairies"... you had to move quite any single file to the proper folder to make it work :) If you need some help with french, I can give you a hand Anton ;)