When I’m using 3ds Max 2008, the menus and viewports disappear a lot. I can get them to re-appear by mousing over them, or by dragging a window on top, but it’s really annoying.

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I’m using an Ati Radeon X1950 Pro on XP x64 SP2. I’ve tried both 32bit and 64bit 3ds, and it didn’t make any difference. Any ideas how to fix this?

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First thing has to be graphics card drivers. Are you on the latest release for your card?

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Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

I updated to the latest drivers (8.5) yesterday, but the problem has been there since I got the graphics card (I was using the 8.3 drivers).

I’m not familiar with ATI cards - what’s the nearest nVidia card - performance wise? i.e. is it up to the job?
Th only other things I can think of are
a) mouse drivers - they’ve been known to mess with max (Logitech and Intellimouse) and
b) a corrupt UI file. You can check this by loading a different theme, but be aware you may (will) lose some customisations in the process.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Hmm, it seems like it was Intellipoint. Do you know if there’s a way around having to uninstall Intellipoint?

Not that I’m aware of, though searching (here) for “intellimouse” may bring up something I’ve missed. I do know that uninstalling the drivers and just using the default ones in windows has fixed similar problems for quite a few other users.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Steve Curley 17 May 2008 08:42 PM

Not that I’m aware of, though searching (here) for “intellimouse” may bring up something I’ve missed. I do know that uninstalling the drivers and just using the default ones in windows has fixed similar problems for quite a few other users.

The problem is, I’d really like to use the drivers, because the default drivers just don’t cut it.

Thanks for your help though.