> In all cases xp complains regularly and shuts off the applications > particularly with very sophisticated programs like TurboCad, 3dStudio > Max and Macromedia where as Linux just goes on for weeks and weeks on
Graphic intensive applications, use many of the graphic cards acceleration. Check for newer (or older, well tested) graphic drivers. Performance might get slower though. In Windows there is the option to turn of acceleration, you can try that first and see if it helps. /Peter
