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Hi Nick: First of all I want to say how pleased I am to see Visual Software's presence on a Compuserve forum. I agree with someone else here who suggested that you send postcards to users to let them know your here. It was through your message on another forum that I happened to discover your forum section. I also experience the totally locked up cursor when launching Renderize, but that in itself is not a big deal to me – like you said it is only during launch and then everything is OK. I don't believe this is related to swapfile size. The sluggish cursor also is most prevelent just after launching Renderize and after cursor control returns from the total lock-up condition. But it also occurs periodically while using Renderize and other software. By the way, the cursor problem does not prevent my from doing anything, it is just an annoyance that takes up a little extra time. I also have an ATI Mach 32 card (Graphics Ultra Pro w/ 2Mb VRAM). My mouse is connected to COM 1. I had no idea that I could connect my mouse directly to the ATI Card as you described; I will have to investigate this. I have consulted several Windows books regarding the mouse problem, and they all seem to say that IRQ conflicts cause a "jumpy" mouse cursor. I'm not sure if "jumpy" and "sluggish" are the same thing! At any rate, I can't find any evidence of IRQ conflicts in my system when consulting MSD or QAPlus. Other particulars of my system are: 486DX,33Mz; 16 MB RAM; Smartdrive cache of 2 Mb; 2 IDE hard disks (Boot drive is "C" and the swapfile is on "D"); CD ROM (non-SCSI). My swapfile is 80 Mb, but I have no idea if it needs to be that big. I had thought that bigger is better, but I'm hearing from others that performance can actually slow down if it is too big. I'm going to experiment with smaller sizes. Hopefully, soon we can get beyond this discussion of mundane things like swapfiles, and onto interesting things, like Renderize. Thanks for your response. -Richard