ok... I just confirmed that this problem has NOTHING to do with DCME see this topic the error is probably the same as you get (see his screenshots, and compare) It has a link to SSME 0.071a which should work (it worked for that guy) This guy also had the problem. So yeah... don't blame DCME try that other ssme version, if that doesnt work, well just forget about ssme... There are some other editors, if you absolutly want to work with something else than DCME... try CLT SSME is like 10 years old... it should be banned or something, it's way too old Also, if your computer is very slow at displaying stuff in DCME, try updating your video drivers... Some people had this issue, and updating their drivers sped up the thing alot. I had a Pentium 3 550MHz with 128MB RAM, and it was working as smoothly as any other editor (selection was a bit slow though). So if you have a decent computer, dcme should run fine