Viewport Crash...

BackSlash

I am not sure what has happened but as of late my viewports are "crashing". Whenever I minimize max when a viewport maximized in perspective or user after 5-10 mins my whole PC will freeze for 2 second then the viewport goes solid grey and cannot be used anymore. I can un maximaize it and use another viewport but after 5 mins it will do the same aswell. Does anyone have an idea?
This has started happening all of the sudden, I think it maybe a graphics driver issue (I am using 77.72).

Specs:
AMD 3500+
Geforce 6800 ultra
1gb ram
160gb ide hdd 7200rpm.

hawken

in customise>viewports>choosedriver, select direct X 8.1 not 9.

this is also in the max help file. I used to have problems with this... fucking directX eh?

MoP

It happens to me too, but only when I log out of WinXP back to the user selection screen. If I log back in when Max has been running, all the viewports are blank. Usually I have to restart Max completely, although sometimes (rarely) it works again after minimising and maximising the program window.

hawken

did it work? do I care? where's the cornflakes?

BackSlash

Where are the cornflakes?
I was using ogl, the error did not happen in DX. I decided to grab some older nvidia drivers and that worked, I hope this wont continue.

Thanks for the replies guys.