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My systems, both host and slave, keep locking up at the same point during a rendering. Here are the surrounding circumstances. I am on my sixth iteration of a project (3a.prj, 3b.prj, etc.). Up until my last iteration, everything has been rendering fine, be it a .tga file or a .flc file. Now, out of the blue, rendering with all my new changes (moving spots with changing colors, an overhead spot with cloud7.tga as a projector, etc.) my project locks up in the middle of 'creating reflections.' When reflection rendering is turned off, the frame renders fine. My first thought was that I was rendering a frame outside of my active segment, but when I corrected that, my problem was still there. My host system is a Pentium 90 (AMI motherboard) 64 mb RAM. What I've tried to do in order to isolate the problem is this. 1. Remain rendering frame 100 (when I first encountered the problem.) 2. Open a new project then merge everything into it. 3. Render without logging onto our Novell network. 4. Slave to two other systems (both 486's with 32 mb RAM, one with Rel. 4, the other with Rel. 3 still.) 5. Loading the project onto a whole other system and rendering locally there. 6. Running Norton 'speed disk' on my drive. Needless to say, none of these work. My project has 63,000 faces with actual geometry rippling like water (the material being transparent, 2-sided and a flat reflective mirror). This is the only reflective material being used in the scene. Furthermore, this is by no means my most face intensive project with reflection maps. In close, do I (a) have an unlucky glitch that I have to deal with, (b) a problem with Rel. 4, (c) a bad file (even though it does render w/o reflections), (d) a Pentium 90 ninth digit problem, or whatever it was (even though my 486 slave systems crash too), (e) or something I've overlooked. I'm distraught and need a solution. My reflections may not be imperative in the end, however, I would appreciate a solution or some type of an idea as to what is wrong. Thank you in advance to whoever may answer this dilemma. Next Day: Well, it's the next day and I decided to render last night with auto reflection off. All of 240 frames rendered except frame 232. I've now tried everything again, but now I can't render this one frame it keeps locking up!! What the heck is going on??? I'm beginning to lose faith in computers. Help me please.