Crazes were produced and analyzed in unnotched tensile bars of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) and polycarbonate (PC) in creep experiments above TVF (the Vogel temperature). The craze microstructure was investigated as a function of temperature (T) and load (0) by means of small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Contrary to expectation, the scattering vector of maximum intensity ( s , , , ) , which is inversely proportional to the distance between the fibrils of crazes, was not linearly dependent on cr at constant temperature. At the highest stresses (regime III), s , , , was independent of stress, and the average distance between the fibrils reaches a minimum value. At intermediate stresses (regime II), a strong increase of fibrillation energy r w a s detected as the temperature was reduced. In the vicinity of Tw, rreached values of the order of the polymer chain fracture energy. At the lowest stresses (regime I), the energy of fibril formation was independent of temperature and corresponded to the van der Waals surface energy. The molecular motions during fibril formation may be linked to local stress-induced flow processes of polymer chains (regime I) and a-relaxations (regime 11). Increasing stress restricts the range of mobility of macromolecules to shorter and shorter units and a transition from the formation of fibrillated crazes to homogeneous crazes or shear deformation processes occurs at the highest stresses (regime 111). A pressure-temperature diagram was constructed from the transition between the regimes, particularly at negative pressure.