Thanx all. I'll answer one at a time... Nicholas: One sun light and that's it. No soft shadows. I didn't canccel, but I did pause the render, then restart it again later. BUT, this has happened before wether I pause, cancel, close/re-open, whatever. One object, the landscape. Sailor: I'm not sure, since I haven't seen it drop, just noticed after a while that it wasn't at full anymore. Carrara is the only thing running, (besides windows and the 20 things it THINKS it needs to run ;) ) Renderer: I hadn't heard about QT being successively longer in rendering, but I do know what you mean about sequencial TIFs. That's what I do for important/final renders, but for a quickie test, I've just done the QT Sorensen 3 codec and not had too much of a problem before. It's sad to think that there's a bug with going directly to a QT for simple tests. I'll try starting the render over with seq. TIFs and see what the speed increase is like. No blurry reflections. I appreciate your responses, and I think I'll send the file off to Eovia and see what Charles & Co think. Thanx again!