Re: Dreamscape.... buggy?

Yipes!  I've never used the demo, but I do have the Max 9 version of Dreamscape
and it works fine for me.

The one and only problem I've ever had with it is its inability to do wakes and
water engine effects on large scale surfaces (it will do them fine on small
surfaces, and it will do waves and other large scale surface effects, but you
can't generate proper wakes or boat engines such on large surfaces -- it just
don't work). 

But I've never had it crash, or change values, or do anything untoward and I use
it in just about every outdoor scene I render (those skies and oceans are just
too marvelous for words).

I've looked at lots of alternatives and found nothing close, so I would
wholeheartedly recommend it.  OTOH, I don't know if it's the demo that's buggy
or something with your system (um, maybe display card?  I dunno, we've got
Dreamscape on our render farm on four different machines and each has diff