maya press esc to interrupt render doesnt work

Ged

Does everyone else have this issue or is it just me? Im running maya 2014 on an imac. It says "press esc to interrupt calculation" when Im rendering viewport playblasts or rendering with mental ray but when I press esc nothing happens and Im forced to wait ages for it to finish or just force quit maya.

Bartalon

Did you try holding ESC?

JohnnyRaptor

depending on how intensive the render is, maya might not register one press of the esc key. Try and press it a few times till it registers it.

Ged

Hah yeah Ive been bashing it and holding it and tapping it, tried everything over the past year but still it doesnt stop the render. It seems to get to the end of rendering and then just when it displays the final image it closes the window...so pointless!