The particle effects, I just used Fire, theres a fireplace in my scene that uses it. And I found out that it actually renders 0 frames, it doesnt render at all. All of my computer equipment is up to date and higher than the required power needed to run Maya. I need to render the scene because the animation has too much going on at one time and is choppy when I play it regularly, and im attempting to sync it to a song. So when the choppiness slows down the frame rate it, I cant tell if im synced with the song or not which halts me from going on with the project. So right now im at a stand still on my animation until this gets worked out. Thanks for your help Mirek, hopfully this isnt too much trouble for you.