Hello,

a technical problem this time!
It happened from one moment to the other without any reason during modeling.
Whenever I now click the right mouse button to get to the viewport menu it just appears to short to do anything, it won’t stay.
I changed the DirectX from 9 to 10 and back, reset Max, even re-installed Max again but nothing did help.

Does someone know this problem?

Thank you for reading!

3ds Max 2010 32-bit
Intel Core 2 CPU 4400
2.00 GHz, 2G RAM

the only time when I had this problem,happened when I was making a video tutorial,using Camtasia..but after that I closed camtasia,it worked fine.Try updating your video card drivers..I can’t really think of anything else.Also,maybe you have other software opened like a video player...Something that would interfere with the display drivers.

The problem vanished as it came...suddenly and without warning! :)
Maybe something I did helped or the threedee gods just made some fun of me.
I still don’t know what brought that on but it’s gone now and I can work again! :):):)

3ds Max 2010 32-bit
Intel Core 2 CPU 4400
2.00 GHz, 2G RAM

Yeah, I think the Camtasia problem is a conflict with video acceleration and I see it too.
Very unhelpful, it makes you use the toolbar icons for normal right click operations while recording.
Even though the menus are there when right clicking, you just can’t see them without running the mouse over the area.
It makes a single line of the menu visible while you are over it.

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

I still have this problem at least once a day and I’m not doing anything with Camtasia…
At least a restart helps now!

3ds Max 2010 32-bit
Intel Core 2 CPU 4400
2.00 GHz, 2G RAM

I found the solution to this problem: Right-Click Problem in 3DS Max when using Camtasia .

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Max 4/Gmax, 2008 - 2013
Mudbox 2009-2011
Win 7 x64 (x4)
Geforce 480x2 | Geforce 275x1 | ATI Radeon HD 3200 | Intel Generic chip
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Would be rather more useful if y’all told us what OS you’re using (except Don because it’s in his sig).

My right click menu (viewport label or quad menu) is completely unaffected by the “Hide capture rectangle” setting in Camtasia - it just works. But then, I’m on XP, not Vista…

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

Shawn,
I wish I could say it works here, but no.
I’ve had this problem for years and have been told the only way to resolve
it is to disable video acceleration but never have since Max needs it.
With Max 2009 (hide recording rectangle) works abut 50% of the time, which is better than it was,
the other 50% I get a couple of grey boxes that if I run the mouse over show a couple of lines of the quad menu.
With Max 2010 I get no right click menu at all.
This really doesn’t surprise me too much with 2010, it’s pretty much a lead brick on my machine.
I rarely even try to use it.

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

Well. sorry it didn’t work completely, but maybe some…

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

this solution did the trick for me under win7 64bits:

1.- Right click on desktop
2.- Click on personalize
3.- Click on Window Color
4.- Disable Transparency

I agree, that did it for me too after alot of trial/error…

3ds Max 2010 32-bit
Intel Core 2 CPU 4400
2.00 GHz, 2G RAM