Thanks ND. I have given a lot of thought about rolling back to 2009 or earlier but there are a couple features that were added to modeling that would be lost and I also do more then just model. If I was to roll back just to get rid of this issue I'd just assume stop using maya and start transitioning to another 3D application.

I have really been hoping that in four releases enough people would have complained about this that AD got off their asses and fixed it by now.

I am curious that you say you have seen this before 2010? I use maya quite a bit and for a very long time and I have never seen this problem of the display, outliner and channel box no longer updating.

In fact when it first started occurring I thought maya had just locked up. I'd make an edit and nothing would happen so I'd press the z-key. When nothing happens what do you do next? Why press the z-button again, and again, and again. Then you orbit, pan, or dolly the camera and the screen refreshes and you find you have just undone 6 hours of work! It took me quite a while to train myself to recognize this immediately and not destroy hours of work. But honestly it never happened to me until version 2010.

I had been using the gtx 285 FTW 2GB DDR3 board for quite some time up to that point. I did have am FX1000 for a while with a GB of DD2 but that board truely was terrible if I tried to do anything with directx. That is why I really do not want to be forced into a Quadro. They simply suck as an all around hraphics card. I run a lot of 3D apps including solid works, inventor, modo, blender, c4d (mostly for body paint), plus a lot of other graphics intensive apps like all the adobe suite, several video editing apps etc and none of them have an issue with my geforce cards.

It was sad that the 285 that recently died had better performance then the 480 evga replaced it with and although I can still use alias and have not had any noticeable anomalies I do now get a nasty gram every time I launch it saying the gtx 480 does not meet the graphic specification blah blah blah. not really a surprise since both maya and alias and AD aquisitions from sgi.

I have been wanting to capture a video of it when it occurs to see if it matched the behavior you have seen and show others what I have been having to deal with but I always seem to be in the middle of propriatary work and cannot record it.

I think I will open something else tomorrow and see if I can get it to happen so I can post a video. I think you will all agree that if this was happening every time you tried to model something you'd be very upset.