New Video Card Issues and Maya

NathanA

So my trusty ol 8800 gts randomly died the other day. At first it would run for awhile and then my monitors would turn off while the computer would still run. Then it got to the point where it would just not turn on the monitors from the very begining and give me the ol "one long two short" beeps (video issue).

So anyway I went to Fry's...

Got a Nvidea Geforce gt 240 1gb... but I didn't do my research before hand so when I got home I found crap reviews but worst of all when I went into Maya I got this error message when I tried to go into high quality rendering mode:

// Warning: High Quality Rendering mode is not supported by the graphics card. Switching to default rendering mode

So I sat down did some research and went back to Fry's and got a GeForce GTS 250 512mb. Which from everything I read on Tom's hardware and a few other lists was superior to my old 8800 by far
Upon installing and opening Maya and trying again to go into High quality rendering mode the same darn warning appeared.

// Warning: High Quality Rendering mode is not supported by the graphics card. Switching to default rendering mode



........... help

Has anyone had this message before and know of any solutions? Do I need yet another card? Do I need to do some sort of overclocking? My 8800 did this without breaking a sweat.

Rurouni Strife

Umm, double check your drivers? Make sure they came from Nvidia and not Windows Update. You have a Nvidia card and Maya and Nvidia seem to work better than a Maya and ATi/AMD setup like I've got. Also try to reset your display.

NathanA

Thanks for the reply Strife. I tried reinstalling my drivers several times (clean install) but it still gives me the error. What do you mean by reset the display?

SaferDan

I have this exact problem but i have it with a 8800 GT high quality used to work but i updated it and not i get the same message as NathanA. ive rolled back to other drivers but nothing

ceebee

I'd back up your preferences and do a clean install of Maya. I hate Maya sometimes, she can be such a bitch.

kodde

Revert to a driver before the latest. Worked for me.

I've had this issue on several machines at work with the latest nvidia driver. Both in Maya 2010 and 2011.

SaferDan

yeah ive fixed it, it seems only the 256.xx drivers work which is a bit annoying!

Thank you for the replies

Torch

I've heard another fix is installing Maya 2011 Hotfix 3. Has this worked for anyone?

SaferDan

I have 2011 on my computer and i still had the problem but i don't know what you mean by hotfix 3?

Scruples

Hotfix 3 is the latest updated version of Maya, akin to a patch.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15407662&linkID=9242259

SaferDan

ah awesome thanks not meaning to hijack the thread but with the current driver i have i cant open photoshop and maya at the same time anymore which is why i tried to update my driver but then high quality wouldnt work ¬_¬ but now i have my high quality back i cant have them both open. If i have maya open then photoshop crashes when i try to open a picture!

Can anyone help?

Scruples

You might want to try the 197.45 drivers, they have been the most stable for me.
Other than that, you can try disabling windows aero if you are using Vista or 7.

running GTS250 for reference.

SaferDan

I don't seem to have Areo on my computer im running Vista, what is aero? I went down the 196.xx driver and they didnt work but ill try the 197.45 and see what happens

Thank you

arrangemonk

aero = transparency

SaferDan

OH! Thank you!