3ds Max Viewport Problems

March 28th, 2008

This just in from the Troubleshooting Desk: 3ds Max 8 and 9 do not play well with Microsoft’s Direct3D 8 or 9 drivers as served by this author’s Nvidia GeForce card in XP, at least with ForceWare Release 169.21. Both versions of Max, while using Direct3D, exhibit periodic viewport refreshes that overwrite any other UI elements including windows, menus, and dialog boxes.

Switching from the Direct3D driver to OpenGL in Customize > Preferences > Viewport has solved my problems. Your mileage may vary.

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7 Responses to “3ds Max Viewport Problems”

1. boorans Says:
   April 7th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

   thank you

2. zoomy Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   no problem.

3. 3grosze Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 8:50 am

   Hi

   I’ve got the same problem with 3dsmax… moreover I’ve got that problem in AFX :/
   I’m wandering what’s Your computer’s configuration.
   Please contact me via email.

4. 3grosze Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 8:50 am

   best regards of course

5. zoomy Says:
   May 7th, 2008 at 9:39 am

   I haven’t had any trouble in AFX, though I haven’t used any of the 3D features since I upgraded my video card.

6. 3grosze Says:
   June 20th, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 8:31 am

   Hi
   I coudn’t send You mail cause, it was returned by my ISP… anyway…
   i figure it out, what was the issue of this strange refreshing
   that was intellipoint driver!
   after uninstall, all things went back to normal
   i found this solution on autodesk forum - they wrote that intellipoint and logitech mouse drivers may cause problems with viewport

   sorry for my english

7. sri Says:
   June 29th, 2008 (6 days ago) at 10:59 pm

   thanks. it worked

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