What's your set up, Tim? I had that trouble until I did the 4.12 patch. It also seemed to help, having an odd number of Cows working (currently, my set up is an XP-1700 master, an XP-1800 and Athlon 700. 2 Shuttle mainboards and a Chaintech mobo. PC-133 and PC-2100 DDR. All running Win2k Pro). After watching things a little, I don't think that the Rendercows are at fault; Vue is functioning as the network manager, and is responsible for sending the appropriate textures to the various Cows before rendering begins. I suspect that it's a matter of Vue not having a clearly defined path to the transmaps (remember that it is using the Poser directory setup, and Vue doesn't have a recursive tree search function if the pathname isn't quite kosher. Koshini...? [couldn't resist... :P ]). There is a =lot= of syntax errors in filenames in Poser. Even DAZ has been guilty of the droppedadded capital letter boo-boo. Not being quite as familiar with the under the hood of Vue, I wonder if the HyperVue manager isn't operating at too fine an input timing tolerance? The only thing lower on the path tree than transmaps are bumpmaps, which Vue also has a fit with. Of course there is also the chance that any firewall or AV software is responsible. I have to turn Norton completely off before I can see the extra boxes....