Maya 2016 Mac screen flashing

#1

All of a sudden I’m experiencing “black screen” flashing. In other words, I have a model on screen, when I click with the mouse and start to drag a selection box the screen turns black until I stop and let go of the mouse. If I click without dragging it doesn’t happen.

I’ve attached a short mp4 that shows what’s happening. I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 on a 2009 MacPro 12 core, 64 gig RAM. Nvidia web driver
Nvidia Web Driver - 378.05.05.25f04 --> build 16G1114

anyone else experiencing this? I recently reverted from High Sierra back to Sierra becasue of color shifts in my two screens (Samsung 28" 4K) and (Wacom Cintiq 24) alogn with some other issues so reinstalled Sierra then did backup of last Time Machine Sierra backup to the reformatted drive. I then had to reinstall Maya, then this update for Maya mentalray_Plugin_for_Maya_2016_SP1_EN_JP_ZH_Mac_OSX.dmg.

Thing is I didnot have this issue prior to the revert back to Sierra and subsequent reinstalls of backup and Maya.

Wonder if this has anything to do with the problem? Thanks in advance for any assistance/help.

#2

Apparently you can’t upload video. So here’s a screen capture of drawing selection around the model. Soon as I stop dragging screen returns to normal.

#3

Well, well…I opened a different model and am not having the problem so there must be something inherent to the model I was working on which I received from a vendor/modeler. I will send back to him and see if he can determine what the issue is with that file.

#4

this was a Maya bug that was fixed in 2017 and later. I think it showed up mostly when viewport subdivisions were on. The workaround was to drag a selection in the viewport before you load a scene or create an object, I think