Oh BEWARE if you bring up stupid windoz task manager it WILL REPORT VUE DEAD ! you have been warned. you got to use wintop or something to monitor the proccessor. It's the way it works it only updates the screen when it writes to the screen and that's the way all windows apps work, problem is the time between is huge on huge renders like it could take hours for it to do a single line. It don't matter if you render to disk or the screen it's the way windozs works. It doesn't have a seperate proccessor for the screen so it has to wait in line for a opening on the clock cycle. It's a serial computer, one thing at a time. Wintop and some apps will work cause there only 16 bit and if you put Vue to idle it will give up proccesor resourses faster then if it's set to normal so basically if you do that then use the computer lots to do other things while it renders it will of course take even longer to finnish. Like I'm rendering right now. I'm always rendering but I try to limit my activity while it renders. Like I serf the web limited and that's about it. I don't start up anything big and wait till it's finnished to do other work.