Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes

Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes#305551

By jfrancis - Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:19 pm

- Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:19 pm #305551

So I'm still running Maya 7.

I have a question.

Lately Maya seems to be very slow at loading scenes with maxwell shaders. In addition, if I select 50 simple cubes, as I did here (with the grid object), and try to assign a dark gray 'lambert' style maxwell shader to each, then maya chugs along, taking about a half second per object.

Then after about 20 objects it complains of a memory problem and crashes.

Any ideas?

Re: Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes#306342

By jfrancis - Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:37 am

- Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:37 am #306342

The solution seems to be to leave Maya and use the standalone studio

Re: Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes#306927

By jfrancis - Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:01 am

- Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:01 am #306927

Very slow performance in the GUI.

Changing the roughness from 100 to another number takes minutes before control is returned.

Noby has this problem?

Re: Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes#306999

By Mihnea Balta - Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:55 am

- Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:55 am #306999

The time is probably spent generating the viewport preview for the Maxwell materials. Do you have an ATI FireGL card? Did you try any of the workarounds suggested in this thread?

Re: Maya 7 / Maxwell memory problems. crashes#307000

By jfrancis - Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:07 am

- Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:07 am #307000

Mihnea Balta wrote:The time is probably spent generating the viewport preview for the Maxwell materials. Do you have an ATI FireGL card? Did you try any of the workarounds suggested in this thread?

Interesting; thanks.