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Under the philosophy of beat on it until it works, I finally got the Targa card up and running. I had turned off EMS memory (Frame=none) as I was pretty sure 3ds didn't need it. Turning that back on plus something (?) else I did got it going. I brough home a program from work that saves as a text file all the DOS settings. Once I get things stable, I'll run it and upload the results. I have a ATI Graphics Ultra card, which os/2 sees as an 8514. The ability to run a graphics program in the background is determined by whether the os/2 video driver supports it or not. Unfortunately, it appears the 8514 driver doesn't support it. Fortunately, 3ds has a "null" driver, unfortunately I still can't run a background session worth a darn either. More than half the time it seems to load a project file, but never finishes rendering it. 'Cause you can't see anything on the screen, who know's what's going on. Got a bit frustrated over it all this weekend. Anyhow, try adding "/BGEXEC" to your Device=…vsvga.sys line in config.sys. If your os/2 video driver supports background execution while in graphics mode, that ought to turn it on.