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Chris, You are really bumping up against the limits of my knowledge here, but I'll try to share what I've learned from reading other posts. Maybe it will make sense and maybe others will fill in the details. First, yes my 4000 IS faster than our 3000 playing anims, but it still slows down to the point where the animation is no longer "smooth" (< 30 fps) when more than about 75% of the screen changes from frame to frame (camera pans, large spacecraft cruising past the camera, etc.). From what I've read some of the algorythms used in playing OP5 anims are 8bits wide and not optimized for the AGA 32bit architecture. <- I may be way off here and hopefully others will fill in the details. The 3.0 OS is supposed to have built in calls that support hi speed double buffering pageflipping. Nothing I've seen supports this yet. Last fall I was looking into getting some hardware to lay down animation on video tape like single frame controllers, single frame accurate VCR, etc. I almost went for the laser disk recorder Lou advertised here. Then out came the 4000. It was HEAVILY advertised and lauded as being able pump out 60fps anims in ANY resolution and ANY color depth! If figured if it could pump out 60fps HAM8 super72 anims full speed DCTV anims should be NO SWEAT! I ran to my dealer and got one of the first 4000s in the state. Even beat Denny Atkins by a week! 😉 So far the 4000's full speed anim capability is still an unkept promise. 🙁 …AutoPilot Engaged… -Paul-