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# 1 05-03-2008 , 04:57 PM

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When ever I go into my channell box on maya 7, my viewport turns white until I click back in the view. How do I prevent my viewport from going white?

It goes white when Im either not in the viewport, or I clicked on another view.

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# 2 05-03-2008 , 08:06 PM

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ive got that problem to but then on maya 8.0...

i thougd it whas with my video card,, but im not sure

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# 3 05-03-2008 , 08:37 PM

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I dont think it is the video card because it doesnt do this to me on 8.5.

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# 4 05-03-2008 , 08:38 PM

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ooh it would be great if it stops on my comp too.. i hate it user added image

anyone an idea?

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# 5 05-03-2008 , 08:55 PM

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could be that you need to update or reinstall your graphic drivers

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# 6 05-03-2008 , 10:24 PM

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My driver is updated, but it cant be the graphics card because it never did this in maya 8.5.

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# 7 06-03-2008 , 12:53 AM

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then its probably a bug that never got addressed I dunno. when i had maya veiwport issues w/ xp x64, reinstalling drivers helped sometimes. but since the vista switch those are gone.

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# 8 06-03-2008 , 12:25 PM

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Darn, I reinstalled drivers (Im on an x64 machine too)
but that didnt help. Is it possibly because my Vista OS is a 32?
I stupidly got the 32 instead of the 64, because my machine is x64.

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# 9 07-03-2008 , 11:23 AM

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it shouldnt be a problem running a 32bit version of maya on a 64bit machine, but of course the 32 bit OS cant make full use of your machine's power.

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# 10 07-03-2008 , 02:57 PM

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it could be something stupid like having to run maya in a windows 2000 compatible mode... cause this problem used to affect maya in xp but while rendering... the whole interface would turn white til it was done rendering - and i believe the solution was something similar to running maya in windows 2000 or NT compatible mode, but i can't remember... do a google search on something like that.

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