3dsmax screen flickers / goes blank when selecting

skyline5gtr

This is happening quite a bit now, when i got to select an object in vertex mode or edge mode, id say 50% of the time when i hold the left mouse to start dragging a box the screen will go blank all i will see it the selection box but nothing inside the scene so its impossible to select anything.

Anyone seen this ?

Noors

What version ? Does it get worse ? Is it scene related ? Are you using Nitrous ? I always had a ton of graphic glitches with it. On 2012 you also had to deactivate windows aero for better viewport performances.

skyline5gtr

2015, consistent problem among all files. Yes to Nitrusm should i swap to d3d ?

Noors

Yeah, you should try. Check that you are up to date with hotfixes/service packs too.

[PB]Snoelk

sounds like adaptive degredation. is it turned on ?

skyline5gtr

[PB]Snoelk wrote: »

sounds like adaptive degredation. is it turned on ?

No idea what that is, where is that setting hiding

Mark Dygert

It's a button at the bottom of the screen right next to the words "Add Time Tag".

If it's on it will "degrade" objects trying to keep the viewport FPS at a decent level. Materials will simplify, complex objects might turn to bounding box mode while you are moving around in the viewport.

I think its on by default.

skyline5gtr

ah got it, and do i want to try it on ?

Mark Dygert

I would try turning it off since it sounds like it could be the problem. I think it defaults to on.

It is meant to help with performance of really large scenes that have a lot of separate objects spread out all over the place. It will degrade things that aren't close to the camera so it can display things that are.

Once you stop moving the viewport it should all repopulate at full resolution. If that isn't happening its probably a video driver issue. What kind of video card do you have? Have you grabbed the latest drivers?