Thanks for the answer! Ok. 3200x2400 does my computer also. 2GB RAM 2.6MHz Pentium 4. I need images to blow on 4m, means 17000x10000. Problems begin at 10000x6000. But listen you say one machine has 4GB. Does windows xp support more than 2GB? You think I can upgrade to it? Best, Gerhard

Gosh, what a story!! I wish you better luck in the future! Gerhard

Hi Esther, how did you find out your ram was faulty? Gerhard

Sounds good how big was the image and how much RAM have you installed. On my computers rendercow immediately quits when you try to give her more than 6000 pix.

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Yes, Vue 5 inf is a very nice toy. Its fun to have all the tools and to finetune a scene with hundreds of adjustments. I just cant stop me from playing around. Unfortunately as a professional I cant use it, because the render engine is a mess. Just try to render, say one of their example files on the second cd in a decent resolution, like 14000 x 8000 and you see what I mean. I can handle the frequent crashes while building up a scene. I learn what to avoid the bad things and work around, but have no work around for the memory problems in rendering. In other applications you can tile an image, render parts and combine them in photoshop. Not vue. Bryce can render complex scenes with tons of imported xfrogs or posers without filling up the RAM. It is possible. Best, Gerhard

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Vue5inf keeps crashing on Mac OSX and on Windows XP. The internal memory management seems to be a mess. If you monitor memory usage you can see Vue fills up your ram, crashes and leaves a mess. 5.06 upd. doesn't help. It was like that with 4.5, no change in 5. A pity, the features, procedural terrain, functions and eco system are straight forward. Best gerhard