2M Poly Scene Lag in Maya

JDunay

Hey guys,

I just recently built my first hackintosh, and I was kind of hoping that it would handle maya a little quicker than it currently is.

Specs:
i7 3.4
16GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB

The camera is almost unmoveable unless i'm in wireframe mode. There is a chance that something is not working with my graphics drivers, though i've checked them twice. Does that seem off to you? Or is that about right ?

Thanks!

arrangemonk

hdd?

JDunay

1 TB SATA Disk

BARDLER

Install a legal operating system and see if you get better results. That is really the only unknown factor in your setup, and often times hackintosh requires weird custom drivers that could be causing an issue.

ivanzu

Install windows....

Joopson

Maybe try using Viewport 2.0? It handles high polycounts MUCH better for me than the regular viewport.

xillyriax

you never said which OS, Lion or Mountain Lion? hacked kext drivers or official?
nVidia released official OSX drivers for 10.8.2: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-304.00.05f02-driver.html

arrangemonk

also 2 mio trangle scene could include some caching stuff slowing the rendering down when using slow hdd, id recomend some ssd addon for the os

BARDLER

arrangemonk wrote: »

also 2 mio trangle scene could include some caching stuff slowing the rendering down when using slow hdd, id recomend some ssd addon for the os

Naw, my desktop in an q9550, 8gb of ram, a 1tb 7200rpm HDD, and an Nvidia 470 which can push 5 million polys before it gets to slow. An SSD will not solve the OPs problem, a real OS would.

passerby

real OS hackentosh is just a toy not usefull what so ever in a production environment.

r4ptur3

turn off Undo and Construction Histroy -- 2M polies is kind of a lot for maya's regular viewport TBH. I'm sure you can handle 5M, but every move you make creates an undo state and a Tweak node ... that's a lot to cache.