Maya slows down after using SPACE bar

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Hi
Sometimes when I want to switch from any of the 4 views to the "fullscreen" mode by using the Space Bar, Maya slows down...
When I wait until Maya reacts again and then hit the Space bar again to go back to the 4 window view it's fast again. (will slow down again when I go back to the "fullscreen" Mode). I have to restart Maya to make it fast again... Any Idea what that could be? Graphic card upgrade or something like this?

Thanks a lot for ur help

Simon

I use Windows XP and Maya 4.5
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
512 MB RAM
GeFroce4 440 Go 64MB (could it be the graphic card???)
Everything is on a DELL Inspiron 8200 Laptop

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Yes it's because of the graphic card.
Don't know if it's due to hardware or the drivers, i had this problem years ago with my geforce 2.

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hey

thanks for the quick answer...
so what did u do, just change the card? I don't really wanna do that... :slight_smile:

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At the time the problem was due to the drivers. Actually AW recommends the 30.80 for Maya.

U could also do a software trick to use your geforce as a Quadro card, to do this you'll need rivatuner(go to www.guru3d.com).

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upgrade to 30.82 as skelter suggests.
its a buffer on the card that doesn't get cleared properly; so what happens is that maya ends up drawing that buffer in system memory rather than video memory. Hence the 2fps perforamnce.

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Same thing happens to me. When my Quadro 4 died I had to go back to my Geforce 1 DDR. Same exact thing, but when I run in 16bit mode (as opposed to 32bit) everything runs fine even in full screen mode. Maybe that will help with your situation, too.