I didn't have any of these problems for a long time....because I stayed on the second update for Pro. The only problem I ran into was losing textures on some items when rendering in superior or ultra...quite frustrating, I'll add. This always happens with audity's grass, for some reason. But about 3 weeks ago I finally updated to the latest Pro fix (I did the biggie, to capture all the updates in between) and I'm having terrible slowdown. It has only frozen on me a couple times, but as my Vueing time is so limited now, it's created a lot of frustration. I have OpenGL turned off even in Pro, as it worked with my card, but slowed down response. I am running W2K, sr3, everything else (about 25 proggies) run like champs on it, so thanks to you guys who have figured out what the cause looks to be. Now...if only Eon will listen!!

Sgiathalaich