I have tried to render a simple scene in Vue4. Nothing is happeneing....usually it tells me it is rendering. I went to the manual and tried several different settings as described...still nothing.All updates installed. I have a Pentium4 512 ram 80 gig hard drive.

Are you rendering to screen? to Disk? If your scene is very heavy, you need to wait sometimes until the render starts. Vue 4.2?

I am rendering as a tiff to a file....just a simple landscape...a few trees amd shrubs.

You cannot render as a "tiff", except if you render to disk. Otherwise, you only can "render". When the render is finished, you can then save your image as a tiff or bmp or whatever. So, you are maybe doing something wrong. When you have finished your scene, select PICTURE--->RENDER OPTIONS from the top menu and select how and where you want to render. Click OK and your imgage will render. When render is finished, click the small icon (save displayed picture), this saves your image. Have a look in the Vue user guide, it is well explained there. What Vue version are you using? Vue 4 what? 1,12,03,05,2?

A screenshot of your render settings could be helpful as well - so that we know how it is set up.

I have done all that you folks have suggested...I have the latest update to Vue. I am renderding to disk as a tiff file. When I have all the setting done and click ok..the render used to start. I have no idea how to make a screen shot of the screen while it is up.

ALT+PrintScreen should do a screenshot. But to do screenshots you also can download the free hardcopy. http://www.hardcopy.de/hardcopy/english/index.htm