I'm wondering if other people have encountered this. I've been struggling with this for a while now.

My Poser 5 FireFly Renderer is randomly failing to render shadows in scenes. It'll render with shadows then without shadows on back to back renders of the same scene. I've even loaded P5 on other PCs and got the same results.

After around 10-12 clean installs and complete uninstalls, reading the manual till my eyes hurt, and trying bothe the SP3 and the current SP4 I give up. The shadows still keep randomly failing. Does any one have any ideas or input on what's going on here?

Current computer #1 is a Epox With a AMD Thunderbird 1.2 Gig CPU. and 768 pc133 RAM.

Current computer #2 is a ECS with a AMD XP 2000 CPU and 512mb PC333 Ram.

Other PCs I've tried included Epox, Abit, Intel mobos using AMD and P4 CPUs. Two had 512mb and one had 768mb of RAM. All the PCs demonstrated the same totaly random failure to render shadows with the Poser 5 SP3 and SP4.