Maya Viewport Frame Rate

[Andyman]

I'm sorry that I don't have an answer for you, however I do have a question that might help clarify things a bit. Has this problem always occured, or just recently?

I'd also like to compliment your system there - it looks rather nice to me.

[hURT]

Hi there Andyman,

Thanks for the reply. It seems this problem was always constant since I got the workstation. I had to use the certified drivers to actually get a decent frame rate from the viewports as to recent drivers where navigating in the viewports were irritating and horrible.

But, I worked on several really low poly models and some high detailed models which the frame rate, on my workstation, seemed to do pretty well. But when working on large scale scenes (large landscapes, textures and deep valleys with particles flowing). The frame rate is horrible, but yet the HP workstation that I work on delivers good frame rates. I may have to ask the tech department on how they optimized there HP's... I've asked before and they gave me a look as if I said something that wasn't supposed to be said.

Thanks, i've worked on several workstations and decided to spurge on getting a really fast setup (even though I know techology changes and gets cheaper). I'm pretty happy with it, rendering on this machine is amazing. I'm loving it, other then the slow frame rate, everything else is fine and dandy. :D

[hURT]

This thread is pretty much dead, but I managed to figure out what the problem was. It was a bad installation of Windows XP SP2, so I wiped the drive clean and did a reinstall of Windows XP SP1.... and then proceeded to update windows through windows update. After the initial updates for SP1, I added current drivers for everything in the system. Afterwards, I went back to windows update and updated into SP2.

Previously, I used an SP2 OEM update (the 215MB file)... This is what screwed me up.

Now, the frame rate isn't as chunky! Previously, I was only getting about 6-7FPS in the viewports, now i'm getting an average of 30-60FPS! This is what I was expecting, it's abit faster then the HP Workstation which I expected it to be.

:)

[SpiralFace]

Ah so thats what that frigin problem might be with mine. I'm on the same boat that you where on hURT. Thanks for the update. Although it might be something else, its good to at least get a good idea. Stupid SP2.

[hURT]

Yup, SP2 was the problem. But also, want to add. For my chipset, AMD AGP Drivers. They were old which also helped speed up the viewport viewing. But for some odd reason, these new AMD AGP Drivers causes my machine to go Blue Screen of Death with an error of "Machine_Check_Exception" which is annoying. Only way I can get around this is uninstall the AMD AGP Driver but that pretty much leaves me back to the slow viewports again. :(

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