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Came home from work today thinking there would be a notice from Airborne stuck to my door (I had seen from the tracking number that it was on the van in town), and instead found the box from Curious Labs sitting on my doorstep, unattended. I live on a busy street, so it's a wonder nobody walked off with it. That's a bitch directed at Airborne, though(and to be fair, UPS commits the same offense). Ripped off the shrink wrap and did the install. Registered online without any waiting at all and got right into the program. A lot about the interface is very familiar, and I hadn't read any of the manual yet, so I just started poking around. I had read here earlier today about how to import my previous Runtime folder, which is pretty huge, but it worked without a hitch. Being in a rush to render something, I opened an old P4 file of my favorite figure of all time, Asia. I opened the render options, bumped everything up, and hit render. Very impressed so far with the new engine! The shadows are great. I was expecting a lockup at any time on this first pass. My desktop computer crashed, and I've got it all disassembled in my living room right now, so I'm working on my laptop, which is a 900mz P3 with 256 megs of RAM. I zoomed the camera in on the face and added Cake1's high-res eyes with Curio's textures. Made the image window bigger and hit render. It thought about for a bit, then popped up a message that it couldn't find a texture. Then, Windows XP told me my memory was being devoured, and Poser 5 gave me an infinite stream of errors (code 50, I think?). I had to use the Task Manager to shut it down. I can't wait to dive into the hair, cloth and new texture options (reflections!). I'll try and gently push things again tonight and see what happens, but the old content working in P5 seems to be ok. New engine looks good, but I think if you're a frequent user, and do a lot of high-poly and high-texture stuff, you'd better have a beefy machine. Gotta get my desktop back together! Just the tip of the P5 iceberg, but I've certainly got a lot of new toys to explore for the forseeable future! More soon-- -Tempus Fugit