Marc Schmitt

Of course you can.

Try to recreate your workflow in houdini and ask specific questions when you get stuck.

I wonder if your stability problems have something to do with nvidia's drivers for windows since version 5xx. Did you already try to roll back to something like version 497?

I agree.

For letting sidefx' documentation team officially know about that, you should make an rfe, including links to the documentation pieces you would like to be overhauled.