You said, "just a problem of our poor machines" and that's what made me feel bad...LOL. I thought by "our" that you meant yours and all the ones like it...hehe. Mines is over year and a half old. I guess I will check into more memory and see what the cost would be. RDRAM is expensive. Hmmmm, wonder if I could "cheat" a bit and use alpha planes in the background. I have several building meshes without much detail just for "color". Maybe I should check into that. Or just get more RAM. UGH, decisions decisions. Thanks for the reply!