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1. [3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

   

   Topic by MattN · May 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hey guys, Been having this issue since I switched to Max 2018 and have kind of lived with it but its starting to become a bit of a pain. I have added some gifs below to show what is happening but pretty much when I make a copy of an object or switch selection mode say from vertex to edge the UV lag up for a second.…

2. Re: [3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

   

   Reply by Justo · May 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah, same here, it's so annoying. Some other threads that have talked about this: http://polycount.com/discussion/190558/3ds-max-2018-sluggish-ui-and-uv-editor https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/very-slow-menus-in-max-2018/td-p/7096480 A lot of people have experienced a better performance by tweaking the Power…

3. Re: [3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

   

   Reply by MattN · May 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks guys will have a look at those, not had any luck with power managment etc so far though. My specs are GTX 970, 16GB RAM, i5 4670K, Windows 10 up to date.

4. Re: [3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · May 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   What hardware are you using? CPU, GPU, RAM, etc. Is this a laptop or a desktop? Which version of Windows?

5. Re: [3DS Max] UI lag when switching between sub selection modes and duplicates of objects

   

   Reply by musashidan · May 2018 · Home› Technical Talk

   You can run these in the listender: * gc() Runs a garbage-collection routine * freescenebitmaps() Frees up the memory allocated to bitmaps * clearundobuffer() Clears the Undo/Redo buffer. Be very sure the scene is as you want it before you invoke this function Max tends to collect a lot of shit the longer it runs in a…