I often have files of 100Mb+. Vue can not handle it at all. It gets extremely unstable, and saving a 100Mb+ file costs too much time. So here I go, I save every minute and loose another 3 minutes on saving, or I have to do it all over again becouse Vue is too unstable. So is there any way to get the files smaller? And I refuse to stop using 3rd party objects. I know these costs a lot of Mb's but Vue is just not enough to make some objects.

Have you tried to group objects? I know this decreases rendertimes, however I never compared the sizes. Might be worth giving a try. Phil

Yeah, I always groop objects as much as possible. And of course I leave only one or two layers open. But still the larger the scene gets, the more instable Vue gets. Sometimes errors occur during saving, then the files that used to be 230 Mb get 191 Kb. Fortunately I make backup copies of the scenes every hour I work in Vue. But still, I have 1024 MB of memory, that should be enough doesn't it?

Larger file sizes make ALL programs unstable, it's just a given. Maybe try splitting up the elements in the scene into separate scenes and rendering and compositing them accordinly. I can tell you from experience that large file sizes bogging down a program is definately not unique to Vue. I'm using Autocad 2002 at work and am currently working with a model that is at 63 megs (dwg format) on a 3ghz dual processor system that's brand new, and have bombed out of it on several occasions just trying to rotate the view too quickly. Autocad is an industry standard software (a very expensive one I might add) and I would be highly surprised if Vue (a $500 program) was NOT unstable with a 100mb scene file. Sorry for the rant, just getting a little tired of seeing "vue sucks because of this..." and vue sucks because of that..."

i think 100 MB is not really big for Vue scenes. My biggest so far is over 650 MB and was - beside loading and saving - not soooo hard to handle. Most of the scenes are over100 MB, i dont think i have a problem because of that. But it is true, the bigger the file sizes are, the more hard- and system problems become visible. Without knowing your configuration of course. Have you other packages that deal with a similar amount of data? I have an answer to crash problems in mind where the combination of Vue and Quicktime on Mac made Vue unstable. Have you checked things like that? A system extention maybe? Or a slow hard disk? Or a slow video card with a wrong driver? So many options. Maybe you can send a file to a friend with Vue and let them check it? To clarify wether the problem is in the data or on the system. Sometimes it is a good way to find that out this way. Walther

Proc Pentium 4, 2 Ghz Mem 1024 Mb 333 Mhz Vid GeForce FX 5900 U HDD Maxtor 40 Gb 7200 rpm 2 Mb Clean Win XP Prof install So that's why I think it is Vue. Just have too deal with it I quess. I thought other progs like CAD would be better. Maybe the computers are not up to the filesizes. :(

Grouping larger objects together is helpful but turning off the heavy layers is the best way to keep the scene navigational. :O)