I can sympathize... Remember those first couple of generations of VIA mobo chips, and all the Intel specific coded apps they would throw an absolute conniption over? And the memory mistimes? And the sad excuse they had for drivers? Frustration and I have sat across the battlefield for a =looooooong= time, now. Now that this has come to light, it makes me wonder if some of the trouble I've had with VuePro CTD'ing at the start of a distributed render is fully related to memory. If there is a code section that assigns GDI handles and doesn't free them properly...maybe it assigns them for -other- outside events. I think I'll do a little reseach on this...