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Paul; I was having similar problems a few weeks ago, and possibly it was the thread addressed to me. Anyway, the suggestion to download OPTIMIZE is a good one. I ultimately purchased it, and it works great. What I have found is that it will flip all the normals to be in one direction where the one in 3DS may not. For me, it was well worth the $$$ because I didn't have to slave over which face to flip on many, many meshes. After attempting to flip each one in this program, I discovered that a simple click on "Unify Obj." did the trick in seconds. And as a bonus, you can reduce your mesh count. Plus the other IPAS' that I haven't even had time to look at. I found holes in meshes that I wouldn't have discovered until after rendering a long animation. That would have hurt very bad. Definitely check it out. Also, after reading your post about the demo not working, do you have an older card that may work with it? It may be worth a try. I didn't read the directions about Vibrant however, I just ran with it and it worked. I think I have a Hercules graphite 2Meg card. Dennis