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> Is there any way for 3D Studio rendering in the background when > running under OS/2 ? Yes. You just have to pick a video mode for 3DS that is compatible with the desktop resolution. Try running 3DS in 16-color mode. If you can switch it into a window without getting a warning message, you have found a compatible mode. Create a 3DS.SET file using that mode, and then create an OS/2 WPS object that starts 3DS in slave mode using that 3DS.SET file. Whenever you want to do background rendering, use your "foreground" version of 3DS to render to the "network." When you start the "background" copy of 3DS, it'll render the jobs sent to the network, while you go off and do other things. If you really want to be fancy, you can run 2 copies of 3DS on the same machine – one in foreground, doing new models, the other in background doing rendering. It's extreme, but I have done it.