Well... We have a WINNER!!! ( mostly, kinda, sorta ) I've changed the virtual memory to a 1Gig allocated section of my Ddrive and that allowed me to render the HIRES versions of the MAT files for Victoria2. The MW Updo hair still want to make it go off to la-la land - BUT we are making progress. I'll expand the Memory allocation and give that a try. It would be nice to have that working also. I'll let you know what I find out. Thanks for the comments/suggestions. If anyone else has more please feel free. I do desktop support for a living and don't mind hacking on things in the system - if there is a good chance that it might fix things. THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!! Special thanks for namja1955 for the VMM 'point in the right direction' .. perhaps PUSH, not point? Aahzimandious