Brad Although you are working with the student version of Pro-E it is still a professional design tool that requires certain hardware to work. Gaming is not a standard to use towards this software. You need RAM, which is not stated in you spec of your computer. Bare min on RAM is 2GB if you are running XP. If you don't have that much RAM you will be quite limited on what you can model and expect. Another thing that can slow down Pro-E is your anti-virus software, 90% of the time they don't cause a problem, but I would shut it off and see what it does. The forum will need more information in order to help you debug your issue. Regards Eric