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# 1 31-10-2003 , 11:08 AM
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Solution: Maya with S3 Prosavage DDR

I recently installed Maya 5.0 on my HP Pavilion notebook ZT series (zt1195) laptop.

Unfortunately, it has a rather awful S3 Pro-Savage DDR graphics card, but I wanted to do modeling etc while traveling (I travel on business a lot). I would find that Maya would crash frequently, particularly when rendering or using the hypershade window.

Last night, I played around and finally developed a solution that will get a S3 ProSavage DDR to work with Maya:

(1) Right-click on the desktop and select Properties .

(2) Click the Settings tab.

(3) Set the Color Quality to Highest.

(4) Click the Advanced button.

(5) Click the Troubleshoot tab.

(6) Set the Hardware Acceleration to one stop higher than None (see attached image)

(7) Clear the Enable Write Combining checkbox.

(8) Click OK to exit the Advanced Properties dialog box

(9) Click OK to exit the Display Properties dialog box.

At this point you may have to restart your PC.


After the restart, you should be able to use Maya quite normally!!!! :thumbsup:


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# 2 31-10-2003 , 11:12 AM
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Here's a piccie of the settings (jpeg format)

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# 3 31-10-2003 , 12:35 PM
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This might seem like a silly question(s), but have you checked a)the alias site, b)the alias forums, c)e-mailed alias?

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# 4 31-10-2003 , 01:29 PM
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Originally posted by Vampus
This might seem like a silly question(s), but have you checked a)the alias site, b)the alias forums, c)e-mailed alias?

Someone might know the answer here, but it isn't me user added image

My original post wasn't a question... rather it is a helpful solution posted for folk who may suffer the same problems with their S3 cards.


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# 5 31-10-2003 , 01:34 PM
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Addition....

A quick note:

You can check the Enable Write Combining in the Troubleshoot window... this will not hurt Maya and actually improves graphics performance slightly.

Yay!


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# 6 31-10-2003 , 01:35 PM
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Oh, ignore me then, I just skimmed it user added image *note to self, read whole post*

# 7 31-10-2003 , 01:37 PM
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Originally posted by Vampus
Oh, ignore me then user added image

On the contrary, I re-read my original post and it did read like a question without the question-mark. It's been edited to be a little more "concept-friendly".

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# 8 01-11-2003 , 12:24 AM
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I have also had some luck by turning off the
accelerations on cards that crash with maya.
Usually they were not really meant for a high end
3d program.
turning off the accelerations transfers some of the load to the processor. It slows down the graphics, but at least it doesnt
crash every 5 minutes.
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# 9 01-11-2003 , 01:46 AM
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wait a minute... you are running 1400x1050 on a laptop? user added image

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# 10 01-11-2003 , 04:33 AM
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Why do you have Hardware Acceleration set so low? That's what a graphics accelerator is for. So turn that puppy up! user added image

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# 11 01-11-2003 , 08:24 AM
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Originally posted by Emo
wait a minute... you are running 1400x1050 on a laptop? user added image

-Emo

Yup. Down our way we all use ridiculously high resolutions - it's to do with my 'real' work where I can have up to 10 sessions open at a time!

Anyway, I had a fun evening of Modeling and texturing last night, so it's workin quite nicely.user added image


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