Mudbox 2009 - Black Viewport?

#9

just solved the problem !
Unbelievable, but somehow mudbox had a problem with my dual monitor setup. I just switched the monitor connections to the card and changed the desktop-setup in vista.

Works fine now.

Chris

#10

anyone having their models turn black, not just the viewport but just the model turning entirely black. (also a mudbox newbie)

Im trying to paint on a 8k diffuse map i imported from photoshop but cant see any results when painting basic color on the mesh. And to top it off its flat black, even though the texture is flat grey to start.

Running a dual 3.8ghz, 3gigs ram, Nvidia quadro fx 3450 vid card, winxp machine
(mudbox 2009 Trial)

#11

Thanks Clanger for posting about updating to the Catalyst driver. I did so and now Mudbox works fine. I must say at first glance it looks alot easier to use than zbrush as far as the user interface is concerned.

For those of you that are using Boot Camp on the mac…scroll down for the catalyst driver list and you will see an apple bootcamp link…you need that one…the regular windows xp drivers will not work. u need the mac bootcamp diver

#12

Try reducing the map size I think it’s down to how much memory you have on your graphics card.

#13

For the ck screen, I had this to at the first install. First I wasn’t having the servica pack 2 for xp 64, so I install it, and why the screen was black, it was bescause I didn’t have the latest drivers of my ati, so desinstall firts your hold driver, install the latest version and it must work. Now it work finw for me but Mudbox have a bug with the ATI card, it will be fix soon by autodesk, the bug is a little lag at the end of each stroke, kind of a 1 second lag.

I have an ATI 1600 xt pro and with the human model, I push him to 33 millions of poly and perfectly workable, almmost no lag, except the lag bug.

So have fun!

#14

how much RAM do you have in your PC? 16GB?

I didn’t try mudbox 2 yet but it seems there are many problem right now so I still stick to ZBrush and mudbox 1 for a little more. However, I hope Mudbox 2 will allow me to sub-D more than 9millions of poly because with 4GB, I can only sub-D to that poly in ZBrush =.=

#15

My conf.

my Quad6600,8 Gb de RAm ddr2,Nvidia 9600 GT 512 mb ddr3 and i have black viewport with mudbox.Other softwares like a zBrush functions very fine.Mudbox 1 works

Windows Vista 64 bits Ultimate

#16

im in 11 milion polys now without any lag at all :stuck_out_tongue:

3gigs of ram and a singelcore 4000+

just amazing!!!

#17

3Gig can handle 11milion polys without lag :open_mouth: that’s AMAZING.

#18

To All Nvidia users download this driver it will fix the black viewport

Link

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/41771/Nvidia-178-13-Drivers-Released

#19

Giap: I don’t have 16 gig(will like it so… lol) I have 4 gig. Mudbox work really well except tuhe bug lag of one second after each stroke end up!

#20

XP pro SP2 GeForce FX 5200
Driver installer from link above cannot find compatable hardware.

Still have a black viewport for Mudbox 2009 trial even after updating my drivers. Had the same problem with Messiah in the old days.
I will keep trying to solve the problem from this end but any info gratefully accepted. Mudbox edition looks neat indeed.

Cheerio Chris

#21

Well further searching revealed that others with the nvidia gforce fx 5200 cards have driver issues. I managed to get MB running without a black viewport, but with black models and runs like a sow. More searching revealed if you are running 1 gig ram you can pretty much forget it.

I will try this app out on my newer laptop with twice as much ram and a much more powerfull nvidia card, looks nifty indeed:).

Hope this helped someone.
Chris

#22

Well I got Mudbox up and running on my newer laptop without any trouble at all and it seems to be running just fine. Up till now it looks like I can get a little more detail out of it than I am used to. I will only know that when I pump out maps at the end of the test.

It is the kind of app I would consider getting a new computer for.

Cheerio Chris

#23

I’m in the same boat.Latest catalyst drivers but getting the 1 sec lag and also weird blue pixels flickering around the mesh as soon as i go up a few levels.:banghead:

The 1 sec lag is unbearable.Any word on this or have you sorted it yourself yet?

#24

It seems(having read AD hardware guide)that Ati radeons, geforce cards and cards below 512(basically gaming cards) are ill advised for use with MB09.

a higher end card is required for optimum usage.

It’s off to the bank for me:scream:

#25

Sounds like you are using Ati Hardware?

#26

I am having the same problem but my 3d view is showing white viewport.

I hv windows xp pro sp1, is this service pack problem ??

zbrush 3.1 and mudbox 1 works fine on my pc.

#27

well hello everyone, i had the same black viewport in mudbox like many of you do. so i started researching and i finally came to a solution. if you have a 256mb ati radeon x 1300 pro card, you can go to the following site and download OPTION 2, install it, it’ll probably ask you to restart your pc. when your pc comes back to life lol. just open mudbox 2009 and shazzam lolol… i just got it working so i’m excited… Well i hope this helps… like you all helped me…

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

OPTION 2 {worked for me}

thank you.

#28

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