Well, I knew it had to had to happen eventually. I was working merrily on a new scene, and suddenly my whole box hard locked. (you know, the special kind of hard lock that when you move your mouse or hit a key, the pc speaker beeps constantly) I got the Blue Screen of memory dumpage after a few seconds, and it said that my video driver got caught in an infinite loop. Oh well . . . as another Renderosity user has so succinctly put it, "shit happens". What I can't figure out though is if it was a problem with Vue, or my video driver (I have the latest NVidia Detonators) So the point to this post is the age-old adage - "Save your work often!!!" I had just gotten the texture map perfect on a really complex river bed terrain when the program crapped out. And of course, I hadn't saved . . . :-(