You have a problem dude. My specs: Win2000 - 900MHz - 128 MB RAM Takes about 1sec to update my challenge submarine with three lights. Hmm, how many applets are you running Maya with? Remember, photoshop and Maya don´t go along well, since they´re both memory hungry. How about WINAMP? MP3 playing while in Maya even though great, does perform a huge difference since MP3 technology eats system resources to decompress the algoritm.