Displacement Brush crashes Hex

as does the soften brush, pinch and inflate...
HOWEVER, this happens with imported meshes such as cloths that I need to smooth or Genesis.
It does not happen when I create a mesh in Hex.
I'm thinking I have some setting wrong or something.
I tried un-installing and re-installing hex, but no, same problem. This is a fresh download, so I'm up to date.
Anyone know what it is I need to change? Display or whatever that might have caused it as this did USED to work on Genesis meshes... I've created a couple of morphs using these tools.