Maya 2009 lagging

gosijin

I used to use my Maya 8.5 almost all the time And it would move, rotate, and zoom in zoom out the camera very smoothly, until I changed into Maya 2009 I suddenly have 1 FPS even sometimes below 1 FPS, I updated my drivers, and I tried to change settings to Highest performance instead of quality in the NVIDIA control Panel, but there is no change on the fps.

My Computer Stats is:
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00 GHZ 3.00 GHZ
Memory Ram 2 GB
32 bit Windows Vista
NVidia 9600 GSO 768 MB
and Nvidia 8600 GT 256 MB
but they are not connected to each other, one is for the second monitor and one is for the wide screen monitor(main)

I tried to use 3ds max 2010 it is working fine with good fps, but when it's Maya 2009 it is heavily lagging. I hope someone can help me on this and maybe tell me the settings I should use to reduce the lag.

Thanks

throttlekitty

Always lagging or just when moving the mouse to do anything? Try playing out a simple animation, like a cube sliding across the screen.

gosijin

I tried to let Maya Open for 15 minutes, just in case it might only be the first few minutes, but nope, It will stay at 1 FPS all the time, everything that I do even clicking or rotating camera or moving camera would have a 1 second or 2 second delay. and skipping instead of doing it smoothly

gosijin

Umm Mouse is fine and tools are fine like when I choose file -> save or edit mesh -> insert edge loop,etc. The problem is the viewport. anything to do with viewport will take 2 second or 1 second delay

throttlekitty

Just checking, delays caused by the mouse in the viewport would be a separate problem than overall scene performance.

On my system, I have to disable themes. rClick your shortcut, and 'disable desktop composition', under the compatibility tab IIRC.
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/Autodesk-Maya/installation---hardware---os/viewports-locking-up-or-lagging/ This may help, the poster there also has dual displays.

gosijin

OMG thank you very much throttlekitty, I should say I love you very much for solving my problem and linking me that thread. It works GREAT, Perfect! Thanks once again!

throttlekitty

Awesome Which was the fix?

gosijin

The link is the fix, thanks again for the help