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Nik, We are using 3DS R4.1C on a 486/66 with 32MB RAM, 1+GB HD, Diamond Speedstar 24X (1 MB VRAM), DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Targa 64 card, and Animax animation controller. 3DS is not run under Windows, but MS Himem.sys and Smartdrive are active. The system also has LiquidSpeed runing the Vibrant drivers for the Speedstar card. While our MS mouse is undergoing surgry, a Genius mouse with it's driver is being used. This system has been running 3DS R3 properly for many months. The problem occurs ocasionally during a SAVE File operation in the 3D Editor. The message Allocator Error – Invalid handle: XXXAAA comes up as text with a black background, as if the machine was in 132 column DOS text mode. It generally crashes the whole machine. We recorderd two instances, with XXXAAA = 360FFC, and 380FEC. It has been noticed that the longer between save operations (30 min or more), the more likely the occurance of the error is. We now save more often, but still find problems. Thanks for your time, Rich Schwartz