I really expected that Poser 6 was going to be the wheel. it has been a very long time since a "new" poser release has hit the digital shelves and now that Rosity and Daz and RDNA and the rest are in the mix there is so much more art and content out there.......... and so much more money to be made. My expectations were admittedly high. When I saw the pre-order offer I thought it seemed like a pretty good deal so I figured what the heck, may as well get it now. I have been using p5 for a couple years now and while I thought it was a great program, an upgrade really seemed like just the thing to re-kindle my interest. So I ordered it and began the seemingly endless wait to March 21st. Finally it came, and only 6 hours late. (not bad if you think about it! ) So I moved my gargantuan Runtime, uninstalled p5 and got ready to be dazzled and amazed by all the shiny new toys p6 had to offer. I spent a couple hours fooling with it. I rendered the winter queen and all the new figures just to have a peek at them. I liked the render compare slider and the new interface. I even thought it seemed to render at a slightly better quality than p5. I was very happy with the purchase. Untill a few hours ago. I had the day off today so I thought I would sit down and begin a project that has been in the works in my brain for a long time now. It's just a comic book story about two very different hero's. I made all my background images, dressed all my models, imported my props and then I got ready to set it all up. When there was one model on the screen it blazed. When there was two models on the screen it was very fast. When I got to 4 models it moved so slow I had to switch to fast tracking and caroon shading. When I got six models on screen it crawled, even when I switched to box tracking. I stumbled thru the setup. The result was not what I wanted it to be but I had lost patience more than an hour ago and I just wanted to try a quick render to see what was what. I had 4 police cars (the Romero Interceptors from poser world) 3 m3's (no morphs or textures applied) and the US cop outfit (from Poser World again) on each of the m3's. I also had v3 dressed in Temptations of She Devil (by BVH) and the compsition they were in was 750x450. I tried rendering in Firefly. I got a message telling me that there was a problem and directing me to lower the texture sizes and adjust the render settings for Firefly. But I didn't want to do that, so I tried in the p4 renderer, which promptly failed. I tried several times with both renderers and It won't stop crashing. I am running a 2.6ghz Pentium 4 with 2 gb RAM (yes I have 4 slots). I used to render much more "robust" scenes in Poser 5 without issue. I am really kind of ticked off that Poser 6 seems inferior to P5. I expected more. I am sure that the stability of p6 will increase once a service release or two become available. I know I got a really good deal when I pre-ordered. Shade 7 is a nice tool and I am having a lot of fun with it. I know people were anxious to get it and I am sure the demand was high. But none of that really makes me feel any better right now, because I have to reinstall Poser 5 and move my gigantic Runtime back. I just expected more. If you are thinking about buying p6 and you have missed the Pre-Order offer I would advocate that you wait. Untill a service release or two are available p6 is garbage:( I would LOVE to know if anyone out there agrees with me.