Significant performance hit?

# 1 15-03-2012 , 12:19 AM

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I've been using Maya on a brand new speedy system for just a few months: Intel 3930k, with 32GB ram and SSD hard drives. Just in the last week or two things have seriously slowed down while navigating around in Maya. Clicking on a model and the attribute editor actually takes a couple seconds to fill in. Same story for clicking on almost anything if it has to change what's in the right panel (attribute, tool settings, channel box etc.)

Doesn't really seem to be connected to how complex the scene is I've got one open right now with a simple plane and a sphere and V-ray lights and it's acting this way. My system resources are certainly available it's not like i'm running out of ram if I check what's in use.

Anyone experienced a slow down like this? Could installing a plugin or something cause maya to go all sluggish? I've certainly installed various plugins over the weeks.

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# 2 15-03-2012 , 12:03 PM

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Plugins could defiantly cause an issue with slowness. try disabling them one by one. Also what version of maya are you running, perhaps you might need to update with the latest Service pack.. One other question. what is your video card you are running?

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# 3 15-03-2012 , 10:30 PM

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Try going into your maya.env file in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents\maya\[version]. If it doesn't exist, create it, and add "MAYA_NO_VERTEX_ARRAY_SELECT = 1" (no quotes) to it.

See if that helps.

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