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I have a Gateway 386/33 with ATI VGA Wonder 512K. Ani Pro, aaplay, Windows, Autocad, 3dsR1, etc. all ran fine with standard ATI drivers. 3dsR2, though, hung after playing animations from the keyframer or the 3d Editor. It did not hang if I played an animation from the Material Editor. I guessed that 3dsr2 was not really hung; it was just not being singalled to redraw the screen when switching back to 640×480 VGA mode for wireframe mode. In fact, while hung, you can actually save your work and exit the program if you remember the keyboard equivilents of the mouse commands. To solve the problem: Download the file ATIDLX.ZIP from ATI's BBS. It contains the DL-XPress/386 drivers for Autocad and 3DSR1. These work beautifully with 3DSr2. I can run in 800×600 mode for wireframe, and performance seems very good. Since installing this driver, I have not had any problems video-wise.