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>> Thanks a lot for this information – I really think Autodesk should have some kind of hardware acceleration – I was unsure that OPENGL was something Autodesk 3-D studio used – I thought it was HOOPS. Has R5 gone to OPENGL? Does it support multi processing so you can render and design at the same time? << R5 runs on Windows NT which runs OPENGL. 3D accelerators like the GLINT, Lockheed Martin R3D-PRO100, and ELSA boards should be able to take advantage of that fact. Yost Group will neither confirm, nor deny R5 support for the OPENGL stuff in NT. What _better_ reason would they have than to provide real-time previews that were previously unavailable except on high-end SGI systems. Of course there are other advantages to NT…. multi-processor support, a 32bit op sys, etc, but this isn't the Microsoft Advocacy group. – Dan / n-Space, Inc.

Hi John, Like Dan, I really can't answer your questions either. We are all waiting for SIGGRAPH to find out the answers. I can only point to the most likely options. 🙂 Sincerely, Tom