Maya keeps freezing on startups


#1

So I had this huge project yesterday on Maya 2014 with at least 2000 parented meshes with special materials, which I rendered (took total of 8:36min to do so), and went to sleep. The next morning I opened the save file succesfully with the rendered image, but when I first went to perspective, and then front view, I was missing the meshes in the scene (Because I hid 'em sooner).

So I restarted maya. Now while starting it up, Maya keeps freezing on the start screen, only Output window is active which I can close, but everything else is not responding. I uninstalled all the maya related applications (not mudbox included, save files I did try by moving them to recycle bin), but pretty much everything else I kept on the folders. The fresh download has the same problem. Even tried a torrent download, but nothing. I also renamed the maya folder in my documents, started the app in safe mode… The threads I’ve read before haven’t rly answered my problem.


#2

I’m a little confused as to your problem. Is maya freezing when you open your saved file, or just any time you open it.

It’s possible that it’s not frozen, it’s just trying to compute all the shaders in the viewport. Maya rarely even “freezes” it just might take three hours to do something :slight_smile:

Try to import you scene into a fresh one with wireframe shaded turned on and see if it loads.