Refresh issues with Artisan

[beaker]

This would be an ati problem not a maya problem. Probably crappy opengl drivers.

The only ati cards qualified for maya are Firegl ones:
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Community/Support/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_45_NT.html

Just try different driver versions and see if any of the others work better.

[klinker]

look at the A|W site in qualified hardware section. there might be a solution for your problem.

[Cakovan]

Under video card settings in your display properties disable antialiasing.
It happened to me too.

[playmesumch00ns]

you really need a pro gl card for artisan and 3d paint stuff

[Johnlittle]

How's the ATI Fire GL - 880 with Maya? I know it's great with Max,but does anyone have any knowledge of how well it works with Maya 4.5 unlimited? Thanks.:beer:

Hey I just saw Beakers link>>>>>Got my answer. Thanks.

[lazlow69]

cazovan:
you said to try disabling anti-aliasing and that might help, well, that is what I tried but it made no difference. Do you have any other suggestions?

[Cakovan]

I do not know.
Artisan is funny a bit. It leaves traces of brushes as you move off the mesh without AA, and leaves very long strokes when AA is enabled. At work they gave me gForce4 ti4600 a few months ago and since it is powerful enough I kept AA on 4x all the time. Even when playing games. It does not drop much fps. I do not use artisan much but when I did it left brush strokes all over the mesh. Same with nurbs. It would leave strokes when I tried moving isoparms. I was banging my head for a while until I figured it out that disabling antialiasing in video card settings would help out. If you have Maya 4.5 you might want to try unchecking "smooth wireframe" or something like that under "shading" menu.
Friend of mine that works with me told me that you get all kinds of weird display oddities such as artisan long strokes, icons and text disappearing from hypershade and hypergraph and so on with cheap video cards like gForce, radeon, etc. He has got some $2000 pure openGL card or something like that and he has no graphics problems in Maya. Sorry I do not know much about expensive video cards but upgrading to a nice expensive professional video card would be another option.

Best wishes.

[lowkey]

i had the same problems with an ati radeon8500. after having switched to ti4600, all of those had gone.

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