f-ing annoying maya selection glitch

rooster

sometimes (maya 8.5) when I click on an object, it pauses for ages before finally selecting it. if I drag select it's instant. wtf is the problem

MoP

frankie is getting a similar problem in maya 2008, although i don't know if it's tied to the selection method - whenever he selects something it takes 2-3 seconds to actually select it (with just the channel box/layer editor on the right, not the attribute editor).
having the attribute editor open is a surefire way of slowing down everything though... you can see it building up the panel as you select stuff...

rooster

mine happens without any panels open too it's very inconsistant too, sometimes fine sometimes not

SUNCHIRP

Hi,

try updating 'or' rolling back your video drivers, and see if that helps ?

EDIT : -

Came across this little snippet on cgtalk too with regards to the same problem : -

'Do you have two monitors? Then they must be set as wide instead of dual.'

rooster

hmm nope just the one, I used to have 2 on this machine though

Marine

try putting "MAYA_NO_VERTEX_ARRAY_SELECT = 1" in your maya.env file in my documents\maya\8.5 might have to create it, and i'm pretty sure doing that helped me with selection issues.

rooster

nice one I'll see if it helps

rooster

I found out this was because my click box size was set to 10, which I like. but maya doesnt like it that big when theres high(ish) poly stuff about

edit: shit its still happening again