[3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

MattN

Hey guys,

Been having this issue since I switched to Max 2018 and have kind of lived with it but its starting to become a bit of a pain. I have added some gifs below to show what is happening but pretty much when I make a copy of an object or switch selection mode say from vertex to edge the UV lag up for a second.

https://i.gyazo.com/1d89a2a422044b5876c9a5c4f4049739.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/3fcf0402313dbbc043317c13a49e3f01.mp4

Seen a few posts online about this but so far switching display driver modes, updating drivers etc has not fixed it.

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks!

Eric Chadwick

What hardware are you using? CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. Is this a laptop or a desktop? Which version of Windows?

musashidan

You can run these in the listender:

• gc()
  Runs a garbage-collection routine
• freescenebitmaps()
  Frees up the memory allocated to bitmaps
• clearundobuffer()
  Clears the Undo/Redo buffer. Be very sure the scene is as you want it before you invoke this function

Max tends to collect a lot of shit the longer it runs in a session. It's also a good idea to restart it every few hours(and sometimes restart the computer)

Since updating to 2018.4 I've been experiencing all sorts of lagging myself.

Justo

Yeah, same here, it's so annoying. 

Some other threads that have talked about this:

http://polycount.com/discussion/190558/3ds-max-2018-sluggish-ui-and-uv-editor

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/very-slow-menus-in-max-2018/td-p/7096480

A lot of people have experienced a better performance by tweaking the Power Settings of your machine, like setting it to Performance mode on laptops, it's stupid. I have the same problems in Max 2018. I think 2019 has them too, though I haven't tried it myself. Get your shit together Max...

MattN

Thanks guys will have a look at those, not had any luck with power managment etc so far though.

My specs are GTX 970, 16GB RAM, i5 4670K, Windows 10 up to date.