Please, does anyone have any advise regarding a 3d Max problem.

As I am working in a view (any view), parts of the interface/screen disappears as I work. It reappears if I drag the mouse arrow over the screen, or if I pick up & drag the entire open Max screen.
Also, when opening a tool bar tab such as ‘Customise’ or ‘File’ the drop down list disappears too, only when I drag my mouse over where the list would be does it appear again.

At first I thought it was the Max driver so in Preferences - views - I selected - Revert to the GL Driver.
THis helped a bit but the diappearing interface still happens intermittently.

THis problem doesn’t happen on any other programme, only Max.

My pc is a new one, a xeon quad core, Overclocked system, with a NVIDIA 9800 GTX2 Graphics card. 4 Gig of memory. I’m using Max 9. I have installed the relevant Nvidia drivers along with DirectX 9.

What should I do?
I daren’t work on max incase the screen disappears in parts & therefore can’t see my work.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

S

If you have an MS mouse (Intellipoint/Intellimouse) uninstall the drivers for it and use the ones built into windows. They are notorious for causing all kinds of graphic glitches in Max.

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

Many Thanks Steve,
I think this might have worked.
Cheers

Thanks a bunch Steve!
I’ve been going nuts because of this glitch for weeks.
In my case disabling the “Enable application specific settings” in intellipoint’s settings was enough to solve the problem, which is nice as I can still use the magnify and precision booster functions with my Laser Mouse 6000 :)

In case it’s relevant, I’m using:
Max 2009 64bit on Vista Pro x64
Intel Xeon E5440 with 8GBytes of RAM
NVidia QuadroFX 3450

3ds Max 2009 x64, Vray Adv 1.50.SP2, Windows XP Pro x64
HP xw6600, Intel Xeon E5440 @ 8x2.83GHz, 8GB DDR2