# Need Help With Maya 2008.. Quick Question
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/need-help-with-maya-2008-quick-question/42497
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** new-user
**Created:** [November 21, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/need-help-with-maya-2008-quick-question/42497 "2007-11-21T20:33:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@smaulio](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/smaulio)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/need-help-with-maya-2008-quick-question/42497/1 "2007-11-21T20:33:45Z")
Sup guys, I'm running Maya 2008 on an athlon xp 2800+ with a gig of ram and a BFG 6600GT OC.. I know my setup is rather archaic but I keep getting weird crashes when I try to load Mental Ray through the Plug in Manager. Maya Crashes and kicks me out to my desktop. Any help?
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### Author:  [@gmask](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/gmask)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/need-help-with-maya-2008-quick-question/42497/2 "2007-11-21T20:58:19Z")
my first thought is that you do not have enough ram.. watch the taskmanager to see if there is a spike in memory usage when you load the plugin. Maya will not function if it has to use swap to run the gui.