Rich, here's some more testing info: I) started fractint, selected a non-disk video, rendered mandel, so far OK.. – then restarted using <Ins>, selected a disk-video mode -> blank screen (although it seems to respond to keyboard input, it doesn't display anything) ..while selecting a non-disk video after an <Ins> restart is OK.. II) started fractint, selected a disk-video mode, "rendered" mandel, OK so far.. – on completion, went to the "View Window Options" screen (<v>), lessened dimensions, submitted -> fractint crashed (most of the time) III) started fractint, selected a mode like 8-8-8, or 1280x1024 (formerly VESA), – went to the "View Window Options" screen (<v>), changed nothing, submit -> "insufficient free memory/disk space" ... reason: VESA virtual screen setup is here in effect, trying to figure out the size of the video memory – of course it fails, in win32 environment.. so untill someone implements a win32 fullscreen mode AND a win32 virtual screen setup, there is no use for virtual screens in a windowed context and i suggest turning it off (e.g. make "virtual=n" a default setting) /charlie/