Vista - Re: Autodesk Maya Users

this is a known fact.. vista does not render 3d images the way XP did...

benchmarks show that any vista machine works only 20-30% the speed compared
to an XP
machine. I dont know how they will fix this.. but it is a big blow in the 3d
community



"squirrel777" <squirrel777.2pelu6@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> Something to consider before you upgrade if you use Autodesk Maya...
>
> Setup: Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit running on AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+
> and 4GB DDR3200, Autodesk Maya 8.0 x64, ATi X1900 XTX with ATi Catalyst
> 7.2.
>
> There are strange flickering problems with the viewports. Anytime
> something is selected outside of a viewport all of the viewports become
> blank with gray. Then clicking on a viewport again will bring back the
> content of the viewport. Very annoying when animating going between
> channels and viewports all the time because you can't see changes in
> real time made in the channels.
>
> Also the taskbar preview images will put the system into an
> unrecoverable crash, BSOD, memory dump, the whole deal. This only
> happens when the mouse hovers over the Maya button on the taskbar. This
> can be disabled from the taskbar properties window where it says "Show
> window previews (thumbnails)".
>
> If anyone has any fixes or information about these Maya errors it would
> be great to hear about.
>
> On another note, Photoshop CS2 might have some activation issues on
> systems with more than one core or processor. Adobe technical support
> can send you an update, but they don't publish the update on their site
> yet. Realflow 4 works great, not a single problem yet. Same with
> Lightroom, no problems at this point.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Edit: Sorry, should have posted this in the software section. I'm new
> here!
>
>
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> squirrel777