Sup guys, I'm running Maya 2008 on an athlon xp 2800+ with a gig of ram and a BFG 6600GT OC.. I know my setup is rather archaic but I keep getting weird crashes when I try to load Mental Ray through the Plug in Manager. Maya Crashes and kicks me out to my desktop. Any help?
my first thought is that you do not have enough ram.. watch the taskmanager to see if there is a spike in memory usage when you load the plugin. Maya will not function if it has to use swap to run the gui.