@spikeyxxx – It is such a weird bug/error….. I just went back and re-rendered some of the frames that were still missing smoke individually , and the first 6 worked fine. They each rendered out in less than 2 minutes. Then all of a sudden , one slows right down to 47 mins render time and no smoke to be seen. I try it again and same issue , so I try CPU rendering – same issue but 30 mins render time , no smoke. I restart the computer , set it back to GPU and render – 2 mins render , smoke in scene , perfect…… Mind boggling.