Maya6 crashes, crashes, crashes

[kai01-w]

Hi guys,

got Maya6 a few days ago and I must say it crashes very very often, but only when opening new windows (very often with the render globals, but also Hypershade, Component Editor, Tool Settings etc.) it's a real nightmare.
System: 3.2 GHz p4. 1GB Ram, GeforceFX 5900. WinXP. 2 Monitors.
I know the Geforce is not a good OpenGL Card, but it was working fine with Maya 5.
Any ideas?

-k

[joojaa]

change your video drivers to known working ones NOT newest.

[kai01-w]

Hmm. Yes, I tried various driver versions also the 45.23 which is said to be quite stable.
I also tried on a different machine (Win2k, geforce 420 something, where I never had such problems with also the old drivers) , maya in v6 also crashes here.
It's strange, Windows shows the "wait" sandclock icon, there is some 50 percent CPU usage but nothing happens....

-k

[joojaa]

hmm contact alias... but you might have slight problems in that because you dont have a card thats supported.

[deke-kincaid]

Maybe buy the software rather than using the cracked version of CG and then bitching about it on the boards.

[kai01-w]

Maybe buy the software rather than using the cracked version of CG and then bitching about it on the boards.

Maybe you shut just shut the .... up. I'm sitting at the university with 10 official Maya unlimited licenses. The software was downloaded from alias server as registrated user when it came out end of april.

I don't need this sort of stupid comments.

-k

[joojaa]

Even more so contact alias!

[kai01-w]

Yes, I'll do. Sorry for the rage.

-k

btw.: I could just try it on a Dell precision 450 with Wildcat 4 7110. Same problem. Wondering why nobody else seems to have it.

[joojaa]

Because we dont have probs! But maybe you could check the oevrall system since it sounds like its a borblem on how your system is set up rather than maya in wich case AW wont do much good!

[jtk77]

no problems here. Used Maya 6 on a GFX 5200 and a 5600 . Yea I know, works cheap, soon we'll finally become professtional and give me a QFX 1100 ...
but none the less, on those little cards the system works just fine. I don't know whats going on with yours.