yes i know tthings need to be unpacked in memory and such.. that why i was surprised too when i witnessed the behavior i just reported. for information, i can add that i never turn on "textured" preview, and so textures only show at render.. i don't know if it was pertinent in this case could you explain a bit abotu rasterized thing ? i guess i never heard abotu that, or with a local transalted word so i do not really know what ir refers to. well anyway it is not fireply on my case, i have p4. and all my crashes went from huge textures (regarding resolution) but not all hugely sized textures did crash it at all, only those textures with both high resolution size and file size :) and that is strange, i admit...