***Greetings All,

AS still a newbie who has yet to grasp the workings of Daz (yes I know here we go again) How do I get a render to work without locking up to the point that I have to restart the whole  program fresh over? never mind the quality of the render at this stage lol.
Have reloaded DazStudio,cleaned out temp folders,done defrag. spyware checks.before
re-install of  vers  1.8.2.1

OS Windows XP PRo.

P4  HP Pavilion Media centre
Ram 1 g
HDD 64gb
Ext HDD storage 250 gb  and 120 gb Maxtors    ( like many ,keep getting all the models out there I can afford before learning to use DAZ properly!)
Have just installed V 4.2
Also installed is Bryce 5.5, now that is great ,works fine renders when I ask it to. Perhaps should move models into Bryce to render.
I think D/S and Bryce make a great duo .

Thanks for any help you can offer.
YOU ARE DEALING WITH A LEMON HERE.............please use simple terms!!!

I'm far from an expert and have only been working with Daz about a year and a half..but I would check the render settings first.
If you were locking up with V 4.2 you aren't the only one so you may want to check the forum at Daz..there was a discussion going on there with one of the techs.  She locked me up too when I first loaded her..I even lost the whole scene file I had made...poof and it was gone.  The next time I loaded her I checked each item as I placed it in the scene..so far, so good.

Good luck...but do check out the Daz thread too.

D|S itself runs fine for me, but V4.2 grinds my machine to a screeching halt as well. I'm not used to that; because it is a powerful workstation.
I don't personally care for V4 that much anyway, so it isn't such a huge deal to me, but still...

Thanks guys.. so it looks like a patch might be in order for  V4.2. 

Will check out the Daz threads  and remove V4.2 for the moment and see if that makes a difference.

Just want to get D/S working smoothly ...Thanks again.

Just an update to render crashes.

I removed all V4.2  and done yet another install of D/S and all has returned back to normal, everything running" sweet as a nut" you ripper !!

Thanks Annie , after reading the threads on Daz site seems as you say I was not alone in my probs, so I will put V4.2 on ice for the moment.

Cheers.