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>> I have added a new p5-75 to my rendering farm…all of my machines are running windows for workgroups. When I try to start 3dsr4 from Windows, the screen goes black and I have to reboot. (WFWG is set for a 1024×768 16m colors diamond stealth 64 video pci w/4mb RAM)<< This card is not directly supported by the Vibrant drivers and there are some qlitches. We use the same card (2MB only) and it usually works in DOS. For running under windows you will have better luck configuring 3DS for VESA instead of stealth. Just set up a second 3ds.set file (maybe called 3dswin.set?) with the different configuration in it. The add "set=3dswin.set" to the 3DS.PIF command line. Then just execute the 3DS.PIF. In any case you will probably have to use F5 to switch to the Materials editor when you switch back to 3DS from Win because the 3DS video will be trashed. >> When I try to run 3ds4 from DOS w/o a net connection..(as a workstation) everything works OK (except that I get an error message that the network drives aren't available…of course..) It is set for 1024×768 w/16.7m Vibrant drivers. Everything runs fine except that I have no network connections…which of course makes it useless<< We currently run "net start full" from Autoexec.bat to load the DOS WFWG client. Then in our WIN.BAT we do "net stop /yes" to unload the DOS net drivers. Windows then uses its net drivers. When we exit windows, the WIN.BAT restarts "net start full". BTW the easiest way to set up net connections for DOS is to set them up in Fileman. DOS then just inherits the settings. A bit of a cludge, but WFWG and DOS client software don't really work together. MS really doesn't want people to use DOS anymore I guess. Terry Gilbert Forcade & Associates