Yes, some of us old farts still use P4. Anyway, opened it up as usual and three quarters of the working window is white. When i try to render i (eventually) get the old 'out of memory' message. I've played around with increasing the virtual memory but still no joy. I've even installed P4 onto a seperate drive but i get the same thing. Any gurus out there got an idea as to what's going on?

Look at e-frontier for the memory update for more then 1 GByte of memory (RAM and virtual). May be this solves the problem.

Attached Link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx

Have you changed anything on your PC (I assume it *is* a PC)? Check out the memory updater if you've added RAM. The other thing that seems critical is the health of your virtual memory page swap file. I eventually put mine on a separate partition to everything else; how you do this will depend on your version of Windows. I do hope it isn't '95. ;P Whether or not you move your page file, I'd recommend Sysinternal's pagedefrag. Normal defragmentation doesn't touch the page file, or several other essential bits of disk space. Pagedefrag will keep your PC healthy.

Cool app.  Can't believe it is not INCLUDED with XP.   Thanks for the link EBob.

Sysinternals used to be an independent site, but I think Microsoft took them on board because they apparently know more about how Windows works than Microsoft do. :D Mark Russinovich was the man who identified the "root kit" on some Sony CDs' copy protection.

Thanks folks, i'll try any and all of it... once i get 5 mins to myself sigh.