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I've been pleased with Animator Pro's performance with my 486/33's Metheus 1mb Premier VGA ever since its release last summer. My only disappointment has been an occasional problem with a "tear" in large graphic objects while crossing an imaginary horizontal position about 70% down from the top of the screen. I've guessed that this was symptomatic with a limitation of my VGA card and have been considering the purchase of one of the new breed of graphics accelerator cards. I recently read on another CIS forum, however, that new cards like those based on the S3 chip are actually SLOWER with bitmaps than more conventional VGA cards. AniPro FLC's are actually just rapidly played bitmaps, right? If so, even though S3-based cards like Diamond's Stealth V-RAM may be considerably faster in displaying typical windows graphics, it sounds as if they may not be any better with Animator Pro, right? Could you (or someone else) here help with some suggestions about the very fastest VGA performers with AniPro? Thanks, Lee