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blackhearted you have opened up a new window on this issue for me. It never occured to me that keeping the page file big when you have a lot of RAM would make the stupid OS even stupider! I always assumed that between them, Bill and Poser would use the 2gig of RAM FIRST (i know it can't use the other 2 yet) and then start thrashing the pagefile. Last time I rendered a big animation I saw the RAM usage for Poser maxing out at about 780 MB, so I thought, well, IT MUST NOT NEED MORE THAN THAT when meanwhile is was probably sending work out to the pagefile when I had more than 1gig still avail. I will DEFINATELY manipulate the pagefile as you suggest to try to force it to use the RAM, for goodness sake. I am fortunate to have this rig, although looking back I should have gone for an Athlon with a 1024 L2 cache instead of only 512, as this DOES seem to REALLY matter to Poser. The Mushkin Ram cost me around $175/Gig. ::::: Opera :::::