Hi auditiy, might be a tad OT, but still--with the latest breed of floating-point precision pixel and vertex shader hardware, even raytracing can be (theoretically) accellerated on a graphics board. RenderMan shaders can be run with multipass rendering, too, provided you write a new backend for the graphics board. Alias|Wavefront among others (Pixar, for example) are already implementing an on-GPU rendering path for their applications. Off-loading render work unto a graphics board can yield fantastic performance gains, and both the Radeon9700 and the soon-to-be-announced Nvidia NV30 will be adequately suited for such work. At any rate, I strongly doubt this will be relevant for Vue users. ;) ta, -Sascha.rb