"of them also tend to still run WIndows 98" What's the problem?, I am using Windows 95 for Poser, something wrong with Win95?, all wrong that I know is from Windows XP! and Win98. ""NO IBL NO Subsurface scattering NO point lights NO AO NO Soft shadows No Displacement mapps. " It make part of the rendering engines, the same way as shadows, refraction, reflexions, fog, procedural textures, radiosity, raytracing, etc. Many of them are multi-pass algorithms.

Stupidity also evolves!