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I tried the attic scene and didn't have a problem. Try this to see what you get. 1. restart 3ds. 2. load monster.3ds from the clipanim directory on the cd and render the front view. (I set AA off, BG tile, everything else default to a Targa at 512×486. Mem usage = 12356. 3. enter mat edit and load "chrome tutorial" from the scene. 4. go back to 3d edit and render last. Mem usage = 12420. 5. go to mat edit and change shininess and strength to 100, then render the sample. (I'm willing to bet I'd get the same results if I left all the settings as is and just rerendered the sample, but I didn't try) 6. go to 3d edit and render last. mem usage = 14560 From that point on it will stay steady, but is it normal for the mat edit to tie up memory it needs for it's renders (I'm guessing that's where the 2 megs went)? The reason my file was losing 13 megs is because the map was quite large in resolution, even though it's only 250k in size. My system is a gateway dx2/66, micronics vlb mb (pheonix bios), w/ targa+, Herc chrome video (but 3ds is running off of an ATI vlb using the inline vesa drivers), a future domain scsi card w/ 1 hd and a cd-rom, an ide drive controlled on the mb( 3ds runs on the scsi drive), a wacom tablet, and 40 megs ram managed by qemm 7. The only adi device running is the targa, I believe. oh yeah, and dos 6.2. And here's my config.sys and autoexec (or portions of…) for Brian R at adesk: [studio] DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOSDATA.SYS set loadhidata=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.RF DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ROM=C000-C7FF rom=f000-ffff… …X=A000-C000 X=D000-DFFF RF DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.SYS @C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.DAT SWAPFILE=DPMI.SWP SWAPSIZE=1024 DOS=HIGH,UMB SHELL=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.COM /RF COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P STACKS=9,256 FILES=50 BUFFERS=10,0 DEVICE=C:\DEV\FDCD.SYS /D:MSCD000 LASTDRIVE =G DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /RF C:\TPLUS\TARGAP.SYS MD D6 I230 DEVICE=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /RF C:\DOS\ansi.sys ————— :studio C:\QEMM\LOADHI /RF WMOUSE c:\qemm\loadhi /RF C:\DOS\mode lpt1:,,b c:\qemm\loadhi /RF vvesa c:\qemm\loadhi /RF C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 /M:10 /E /L:F TMODE 11 tpclr prompt $e[1;31m$p$g$e[0m set tiga=-lC:\TIGA -mC:\TIGA -i0x60 c:\qemm\loadhi /RF tigacd goto end Let me know what your memory usages are, meanwhile, I going to drop the size of the map in my problem file and get back to work. Thanks again, David