I am an owner of VUE4 pro on OSX.  But I had a horrible experience.  Crashed constantly, could not load materials from VueEsprit, so I never succeeded in finding one material on line.  e-on would not help.  I finally gave up after a couple of months using $500 software - with an unfavorable impression of e-on.

My money is gone, I see that now :(.  Have things changed?  Is the software stable?  Can I load all materials made by any Vue product (Esprit, Win32, all?)

Thanks a lot!!!

I am very happy with Vue 8 Infinite on my Intel Mac.
I had alot of problems with Vue 4, Vue 5, and later.
Now I'm happy that I did'nt give up, although I was close to drop Vue, just like you.
There is imho currently no affordable alternative to such powerful features like Eco Systems and Solid Growth plants.

Well, Vue 4 Pro was made for approximately OS X 10.2 if not earlier. Now we have 10.6, a complete new operating system. I don't know what OS version you use, but if it is the actual version I think it is not a big surprise that there are problems.

However, my advice is that you download a PLE version of Vue 8 and try it out. But check carefully the display options of Vue (and start with low settings ideally), they wrong are the main reason for crashes.

I am running Vue 8i on my 2008 Mac Pro (see my signature) just fine. But you MUST have a very good computer to use it. Also, I would do as others suggest and download the free trial copy to see how it works on the system you will using it on. That way you will know before you buy, which is why they have that version.

I do not agree on the "very good computer" fully. I, at home, run 8 Infinite on a Mac mini early generation. 2 GB Ram and a 32MB Intel graphic card. Works. Not the fastest but not more, even less, problems than on the Mac Pro in the office. It all depends on the driver quality of the graphic card, I repeat.

 Hey that's really great!  Thank A LOT!!!  I'll prolly go for it, I love Bryce but the visuals in VUE rock!  I'm on 10.6 with nVidia 9400 (MacBook) with 1920x1200 external.  I don't see a lot of GPU talk, though there does appear to be stuff in Infinite re. multi-pass shaders. Now:  Complete vs. Inifinte, that'll take some figurin'  (Oh fwiw, the most pleasant surprise this year is Cheetah3d)

If you can make it, do Infinite. But again, test it on your system via PLE. To see whether you like it and how your system reacts to it.

 Ok wabe, good idea.  PLE Installed, hope I get in some miles next few weeks!!  Thanks again