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My targa seems to work fine and I think i have narrowed the problem down to the fact that if i set up the vtr setup menu before i do anything else after entering the 3dshell then it will work,however when i try to load a program from the load menu , nothing appears under the files. however i can type in a file that i know exsists and it will appera and i can render it using the vtr in 3r2. if i pull up a file first then go to the vtr setup then the computer monitor scrambles and locks up. Did I make myself clear (im confused). I've spent the last 7 hours working on this. Rock