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I doubt it's the Matrox card, as there are plenty of people out there using it successfully with 3DS (including myself, although I've got a lowly 486 <g>) You may have the power-saver feature of the P5/90 enabled, which will do exactly what you described: kill the rendering after a period of time. Disable this feature if you haven't tried that already. If you've got memory conflicts, the only way to get to the bottom of that is to strip the config.sys down to files= and buffers= statements ONLY, take everything but the barest essentials out of autoexec.bat, and try running 3DS. If you're ok then, you can start adding things one at a time, running 3ds each time to make sure it's ok, and when 3DS bombs you'll know who the evildoer is <g>. If this doesn't show and/or fix the problem, THEN it's time to suspect hardware. John Tissavary (LUNA cie)