When I try to select "high quality render" in my viewport when working in Maya8, all I get is a load of black stripes and boxes in my scene. Also, when I render a scene (back into default quality render now), the rendered version looks nothing like my scene ie, colours, lighting etc (maya software render). I figure this is something that happens to everyone so my main concern is the first part. I have updated all my drivers this afternoon with still no luck.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB Ram PC3200 400Mhz
ATI Radeon X1300 (patched to Pro) PCi-e
Any help here will be appreciated, apart from recommending an ATI FireGL V7200 cos believe me, if I could, I would!