QUOTE   2) I need to update my tutorials to point out EVERYONE should check their Vue ini file, Damn forget which file, it's 1 am here I'm off to bed, so brains on the blink hehe.
that file often ends up seeingly to leave the amount of video ram Vue will use at  max at only 128megs!!
THAT may well be an issue, I changed it and it made a good difference :)

I've looked everywhere I can think it might be and can't find it 

QUOTE   No one who has succeeded with ATI card?

About 3 computers ago had an ATI card and didn't really find much difference between that and the next system that had NVidia.   ATI worked at the time (think it would have been around Vue 6 timewise)

Gill