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Edward, You mis read my message. Yes, the Toaster will automatically use the FP LW with the GVP 040 BUT IT WILL RENDER SLOWER THAN EITHER THE GVP '030/882 OR THE '040 USING THE INTEGER LW!! Don't believe me? Render a scene with one or two images or procedural textrures in it. Note the time. Now rename LW FP to something else, enter LW (you'll get the can't find FP version, loading default version message) then Render the scene. You'll find that there is at least a 30% decrease in rendering time. I just wanted to figure out how, after setting up to use integer LW, to get a modeller that would work with it. I've done that and will continue to use this klude set-up until I get the '040 optimized LW (which, I'm told, will be only marginally faster than using the current integer version now). basically I've concluded that the 2x – 10x faster claims were overreaction to benchmarks like seive etc. That's why I always say that benchmarks mean very little. The only valid comparison is on the real life jobs you do everyday. Based on that, the '040 is less of a blessing then dealers would like you to believe. But it is better than a 68000 :^} wmc – via Autopilot!