Originally posted by Staffan Lindroth It may very well be that Maya does begin to render but doesn´t really tell you in any way but the little sentence you mentioned. I remember being confused as well first time I tried, thinking nothing was happening, but when I looked in the output folder images started popping up after a while after all! Have you waited to see if any images were produced? I have the same problem. I felt weird so that I created a very simple scene which only one ball animates from x -10 to x 10., 6o frames. My god,.....It took me arond 8 hours and only 40 images I got. My machine is P4 3.2HT Windows xp sp2 with Norton anti-virous 2005 Maya 6.0.1