Originally posted by iron_tick one thing i dont understand is im running on a 1400mhz athalon and it bogs down with lots of paint and texture. the rendering isnt fast either. but everyone says im in the 'good' range for my pc to run maya. theres got to be better. isnt there an 'ultimate pc rig' out there?(for the regular people?) I experienced the same thing on my machine using paintfx trying to paint a starfield on a partial cube. If you look at my first post you can see my computer stats are pretty current. I figure it's just heavy tasking or there are some optimization settings I haven't found, yet.