thank you CBeckstrand! is it right to say that to upgrade only the memory for now, until i have me too an athlon will be sufficient? :) :) also when you had your k6 233, did you experiment more bugs due to the fact that your system was slower than the system requirement, because we heard carrara has many bugs that were in part corrected by the patch. what do you mean by very slow, slow like bryce, ( it take 6 hour to render a scene whit my computer) me i wanted to buy carrara because they say it is quicker than bryce. we do not know what kind of graphic card you had, because the graphic memory and 3d accelerator can make all the difference. another point: recently i try the do of strata studio pro, (the main compitor of carrara) and the rendering was very fast, like 20 time faster than bryce. i also tryed many ather 3d software and i notice that the rapidity of the rendering is not only proportional to the power of the computer but also dependent upon the power of the software engine, and it's capability of managing opengl and 3d acceleration,and many other variables. So can you develop on the kind af graphic card you had, and if you experiment(ed) bugs whith carrara? thank you:)

the minimum system requirement spified by macrtion is: pentium 11 300mhz 64mg ram 8mg graphic card, (accelerator graphic card is optionnel) my configuration is: amd k6 266mhz 64mg ram voodoo 3 2000 pci 16mg the only difference is i have 34 mhz less on my processor, but i have a good graphic card better than the system ruirement, i think it would be only slower, but i am not a programmer i don't know if the software is able to decte that i have not 300mhz processor and that is is not a pentium but amd k6. I don't want to risk buying it and than it refuse to be instaled. does somebody have tried to installed it in amd 266mhz. I am asking this question because macrtion does not provide any do.

try truflite sofware to convert your dem file into a 3d scene and try NeMo, for explanations what is Nemo: go to look my question in the topic 3d animation (josiane)(april 7th)