Since I'm in the complaining mode, let me highlight another issue that I've been putting up with for the last year. When I do a quick render in any of the views, I get this. (see attached image) If i were to 'open last render' in a seperate window or save the image and open in a photo viewing application it would appear normal, but still... It's a hassle to have to do that. Also, some of the useful features of Vue are disabled in that I can't work on a scene with the last render in the background.

I assume this problem is due to some Vue/ATI disfunction. (Do they have ATI cards in France?) Seems if I were testing or updatting my software I would include the ATI specs in the equation, but even the Vue updates and ATI updates haven't fixed this.

Did e-on really release an X-stream product that didn't work at all? Why do I find this easy to believe?

It seems the programmers have their hands full so I won't be bothering them with my little problems. The fact that I'm still trying to work around the pitfalls is a tribute to the awesome results this program is capable of-- when it works.  
 

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