Hi!

It took me a lot of courage to ask what surely must be the daftest question of the month, but I just had no luck with getting an answer that even my computer-semi-illterate brain can comprehend. If someone would nudge me in the right direction, I'll be ever so grateful.

I've recently downloaded PLE version of Vue from the e-on website, to see how would I get on with the software (before I commit myself to pestering friends and family to contribute  funds to my Vue 10 Infinite collection tin).

I loved it. For a week or so it rendered, and Vue chirped quite happily without a hiccup. Nothing too elaborate - just small 'preview' renders to screen, a ground plane with atmosphere and maybe a simple primitive and that's it. Then last week it rendered for 5 seconds - and then it just shut my desktop down dead. Just like that - it was like you unpluged the TV from the wall socket.                                                I've restarted the PC and checked the error log - there was nothing on it - not a sausage, - like nothing ever happened.

The complete shut down has been happening ever since, and I am at at total loss what the heck is going on.  I'm running a three and a half years old desktop PC, AMD Phenom x4, 4 GB RAM, Windows XP - hardly a state of the art set-up but it should still cope.  I've checked the CPU temperatures - there's no overheating issue, all the other programs work OK (DAZ, Hexagon, my old battered Carrara and Blender), there's not a single error message in the system's log. I've tried e-on foums - sadly, I can't seem to be able to post a new topic .

I really love the program,  but I am at my wit's end what to do.

Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?

Thanks in advance.