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Hi Ron, Ani Pro works extremely well with almost any card that provides VESA support. Most graphics cards today also ship with VESA support coded into their BIOS or with drivers loaded at boot time. The problem is that many users do not understand what VESA is and if the card provides proprietary drivers for ACAD or windows they use those without ever enabling the VESA modes. My solution is to call ahead and find out what kind of graphics card the site has and whether they can determine if they have VESA support enabled. Of course the majority of people when asked about their video configuration say, "It's in color and the screen is X" by Y"!" <sigh> So as a backup I carry a number of VESA drivers with me. There is a Universal VESA driver on this forum and in the GRAPHSUPPORT forum that supports many different video cards. You can also visit the forums sponsored by card and chipset makers, many of them are happy to let you download their VESA drivers. Finally, in the IBMHW forum you can find drivers that provide VESA support for PS/1 systems that use built-in XGA video. The key is to get into VESA mode and nearly every graphics card manufacturer provides a way to support it. Unfortunately many end users do not know how or why to turn it on. That said, I hope that any future releases of Ani Pro do have better chipset and VESA mode detection. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have something like the 3DS in-line drivers for Ani Pro? Steven