Never go with anyting micronot says about Vue. it will report it dead when it is not cause it's taking so long in calculating a row of pixels. Look at the Vue prosesor loading If is says vue is at 0% then it's dead all right other wise it should report something like 90% if it's crunchen numbers. There is a bunch of theads here to that effect complete with links to some really good programs to track vue and what it's doing.