mudbox with black viewer window?

#1

okay, so I try mudbox 2009 with an older machine to see how it works.
I open it up and UI looks fine but the viewer window is completely black. Can’t seem to see anything and I’m wondering why since Mudbox 1 worked great. note: I’m a noob with mudbox so it could be something I’m doing.
Is it the drivers, vid card, RAM or something else like all my lights are off by default? Yeah, I know it doesn’t meet the req specs but I should still be able to see SOMETHING!
Anyone know for sure?

athlon 64fx 3500
quadro 1100 128mb forceware 77.56 drivers
1 gig RAM

#2

If you search through the posts below you will see a whole host of folk with similar problems.
It does actually come down to system specs and setups.have a read below for relevant info.

#3

A driver update usually fixes that issue.

  • Neil
#4

yep, I updated the driver to 169.xx and now I can see everything.
Unfortunately I get about 1.6 frames a second rotating around a simple plane. Old hardware is next to useless with this version.

Thanks for your help guys

#5

Hiya I think I got a problem, similar to this one, but i am not 100% sure if it really is the same or if it is the same and something more… well

I get a black 3dview screen, i can’t move inside the 3dview screen, i keep getting an error up “warning: some operations are not supported by the graphics card. please check the minimum system requirements or update your drivers. se the logfile for more details.” well you see this seems to be really easy…

But i have uppdated my drivers for my graphics card 3 times in a row now and nothing changes and it seems like they were updated enough first time too…

I can move in the ui exept in the 3d view window. And heres another funny thing, I think my system speccs are good enough…

OPERATING SYSTEM Name: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Business Version: 6.0.6001 Service Pack: 1.0 Architecture: 32-bit Registered User: per Language: 1033 Domain Role: 0 Total Physical Memory: 3325 MB Total Virtual Memory: 2047 MB
PROCESSOR Number of Processors: 1 Logical Processors: 2 Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD Name: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ Version: Model 3, Stepping 3 [font=Microsoft Sans Serif]Description: x64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3 Address Width: 32 Number of Cores: 2 Max Core Speed: 2814 MHz [/font]
[font=Microsoft Sans Serif]VIDEO Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Memory: 512 MB Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll Driver Version: 7.15.11.8048 Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 x 4294967296 colors [/font]

/cry I really wanted to use this program.

Could I please get some sort of help^^ I don’t gota clue of what to do anymore :frowning: i have reinstalled it plenty of times already. If I wont get it to work soon might move over to zbrush wich interface seems to be a mess :confused: and mudbox is probly a lot better to use with 3dmax than zbrush…

Thanks for reading this at least :slight_smile:

#6

Stick at it.you should crack it eventually.Your system specs look fine and there should be no trouble.what’s the difference with Vista business and Vista pro?
I’m certainly no authority.all i know is that i’m running Mud fine with these specs:

OPERATING SYSTEM
Name: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
Version: 5.2.3790
Service Pack: 2.0
Architecture:
Registered User: Dan
Language: 1033
Domain Role: 0
Total Physical Memory: 3326 MB
Total Virtual Memory: 8388607 MB

PROCESSOR
Number of Processors: 2
Logical Processors: 0
Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Name: Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.00GHz
Version: Model 6, Stepping 5
Description: EM64T Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 5
Address Width: 64
Number of Cores: 0
Max Core Speed: 3000 MHz

VIDEO
Card Name: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290(actually soft modded from an 8500GT)
Memory: 1024 MB
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.11.7846
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 x 4294967296 colors

#7

sorry double post.

#8

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