Liquid-angel, your post has attracted the heavy hitters! Thanks! And...i hope you can get the damn application to launch. Don't be shy to post your latest attempt back here..these guys are persistent. Meanhwile....can you guys give your opinions on two things: 1) certain discussions lately suggest that on AMD chips the difference between the 1024 L2 cache as opposed to 512 L2 cache is not trivial, but rather 'large', out of proportion large. Theoretically, does this seem possible? 2) given a system that optimizes on RAID-0 and throws everything on the RAID volume...OS, pagefile, poser.exe, runtime and pz3, does it make sense to add in any sophistication, such as a separate drive or even two drives and place some/one of those five elements OFF the RAID array? [note; not intending to draw comments on data security/backup; assume that is handled separately] Thanks for the mutual 'chewing' on the pagefile caching. ::::: Opera :::::