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Donald, FWIW I checked out Quick Pass some 11 months ago; when the PAR was just a glint in the average 3DS user's eye, and was very impressed. Since then several clients are using the DQ board with it, along with an AT-VISTA and T32's and the former outputs better quality than the PAR, the latter IMO is a toss up, format for format. The truth be known there is relatively little speed difference when using both approaches and going straight from disk although with alot of RAM the DQ can actually be fastered. Of course with the PAR you can render directly, whereas with QP you have to render to disk first. The biggest drawback is that unlike with the PAR you can't do multiple first generations and the wear and tear on the deck. But the image quality is comparable or better depending on which framebuffer you use. And if you're outputting with the T32 your renders take 25% less time. So in spite of all the noise you hear about the PAR, you've got every reason to be happy with your DQ QP. 🙂 Cheers, John (first to stir up a hornet's nest) Ellis <g>