Maya - Memory Problems.

Steve Schulze

I'm getting a lot of slow down in Maya, ever since I upgraded to 6.5. There seems to be a memory leak or some such somewhere along the line so that the longer I work, the slower the thing goes. If I apply a texture it really starts to grind.

I'm running windows XP, Pentium 4 2.6 GHz with a Gigabyte of RAM and Geforce FX graphics card. I'm working on less than 2000 polygons, with texture sizes of 256*256 and less for fuq sake. There shouldn't be memory issues... right?

Steve Schulze

Never mind, I'm an idiot.

My history lest was about 10 pages long.

MoP

Ahahaha. When I started out on Maya I kept wondering why it was going horrendously slow ... I've got a hotkey bound to delete object history now

thomasp

lol, how come you never checked the channel box?

anyway, turning history off is something i'd love to do for modelling since it's a joke to have to do stuff like that manually - weren't computers and software originally intended to automate tasks?
unfortunately there are strange side-effects occuring, like the extrude-gizmo which then dissappears and possibly other stuff that's not as obvious.

or did they fix that in newer versions?

Jeff Parrott

No the interactive manipulator still is unusable without history on. Like MoP I've just got a shelf button that's

DeleteHistory;

and it gets the job done on whatever is selected.

Steve Schulze

The amusing thing is, I've got a button bound to delete history too, I just never thought to use it.