The reason I asked was I'm not sure if works the same way or accomplishes the same thing as the 2 other programs mentioned. I have laoded it but I haven't tried any complex rendering jobs yet. It has a bunch of settings but I'm not sure which ones would give me freeze protection the memory monitor shows plenty of memory even when the scenes are freezing. I just thought someone might be a little more familiar with the program and has enough technical savy to understand what the best settings would be for this situation.