heyas; no, the problem is ONLY rendering to disk. you guys rendering to screen are fine. when rendering to disk, vue gets very uptight about where it wants to store and retrieve the image file from. and in what format. if you want to render to disk, you have to tell it to render to disk, and then DONT TOUCH the filename and location it gives the render. nor the format. you can turn on your alphas and depth renderings if you want those. then you have to start rendering, interrupt, and re-save the file -- WITH THE SAME NAME -- to open and resume again later. if you change the scene file name, vue will automatically change the rendered image file name to match, then it won't find that filename (since it started with the previous name) to continue rendering.... and it makes a mess. im rendering 3000x, so rendering to screen isnt even an option. btw, vue 5 d'esprit is trying to save my image thus: F:SVuescenesarabesqueg1.vue.bmp needless to say the stupid 'my pictures' directory isn't on drive f (nor is drive f in 'my pictures'). so as far as i can tell, it's not putting the render anywhere. wabe, if you want to follow up to e-on's follow up on this situation, you might want to give them that info. my 'my documents' btw, points to my d:notes directory.