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Laurent-
I don't get anything useful out of the 2-D or 3-D map displays, except for the color scale. This looks like Direct X problem or a problem of the graphics card hardware; the maps stay black largely and do not update at all. I am using intel Mac hardware and windows 7 (virtual machine and open vibe on native windows 7 prodcues the same problem). Do you have any ideas?