thanks..I'll give the suggs. a try.. SSS...this has caused my system to crash quite a bit.... in fact, I'm actually having a lot of problems running p6...extremely slow...loading characters and objects, rendering draft or final...very slow compared to P5... also, I'm getting out of memory errors with even small scenes There is a benchmark scene which I run in P5 in 1 min. 40 seconds. I ran it in P6..over 4 minutes... Not sure what's causing this...I've reinstalled twice now.. I have 1 gig ram...amd64/3200+ ...ATI 9600 vid.

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