I must clarify...I'm also using a system besides this one (my AMD system)...it's a P3 1 GHz with 256 of PC133 SDRAM...it seems to do really well with rendering. I often run it under Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition when I render because it seems to do a quicker job than in XP...maybe that's just because it's a fresher install, not sure. But the specs on that computer are rather basic. I'd like to try Bryce Lightning sometime again though...you can use that for stills? I'm not in that animation realm just yet. MD