Well one thing having a hard drive sitting there at 40 gigs is not too smart. The location numbers get way too big. You should resize it. A 40 gig partition is too big man your just asking for trouble. Whatever memory manager your using turn it off and try the one I sent you. It works, I've used it now for over 8 years. Noticed while I was rendering Wish: That file took 110 hours to render 12 hours to render to about 43% 12 hours to render 57 to 100 % The rest is from 43% to 57% that 20 % of the image took 86 hours to render, The horizon killed it for some reason. It's normal. Yer not suppose to peek remember? It don't matter how long it takes if it never finishes it's pointless right? Give it time it will render. About the 40 gig hard drive? Your going to waste over 10 gigs just in slack space trying to keep the computer figuring out where everything is. Slack space don't show up in disk free space. Your also wasting 4 gigs just for the trash can.. Resize it.