Every thing that was said is absolutely true. One thing that was not mentioned that I have found useful is this: After working on an image and of course saving often, before I initiate a final render, I save and exit the program. Then after about 20 seconds when windows has finally flushed my memory, I start VUE up again and load the file then I start my final render. This assures me of the maximum amount of resources and I almost never have problems. Hope this helps you. G&C