Hi !

I recently bought an imac 27” intel quad core i7, and have expiriencing serius issues with maya 2010 it so slow for most common task, like orbit, it takes at least 5 seconds to complete the task!

Someone help me please!!! an update, OS upgrade, te imac came with snow leopard 10.6

I´ll appreciate it a lot!!!

Check your OS Updates, there is supposed to be a fix

Also, how much memory do you have in your iMac?  Should be at least 4Gb if not 8Gb.

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Maya 2012, PFMatchit, Nuke, Modo 501, CS5
Win 7 Pro 64bit
i7 x980 3.3Ghz, 24Gb Ram
Quadro FX3800 Driver 8.17.12.5896

Everything runs decent on mine excepting when selecting.  I get the pinwheel a lot.  In Maya 2009 and 2010 on 10.5 my mac would freeze so I was told to upgrade to Snow Leopard.  I did, updated to 10.6.2 but the pinwheel still comes up when selecting.  Very slow.  Thinking about switching to Blender permanently.

Ihave that problem too. It sucks! this issue can drive anyone crazy, almost imposible to use. I hace an Imac 24”, 4 GRam and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 (256 m)

Dos anyone know how to fix it?????

Hi, I have the same problem with my MAC PRO 2 * 2.26 Quad intel xeon… (slow selection)

I have the NVIDIA GT 120, does anyone has the ATI Radeon HD?, I wonder if it’s not the graphic card, it seems to not have been tested by Autodesk yet…

I did’nt have this proble when using maya 2009, only with 2010! Very annoying.

Thanks

I also had this problem…
I found that its snow leopard update problem…
I created new user and maya works like a charm…

I also have many other little problems because of update (skype hangs up once a day, can’t calibrate screen colors), so now i will move all my things to new user where all works nice…

I also have the same problem.. I have a macbook pro with leopard 10.5.8 .... I`m not completely sure but I think it`s has no relation with the software update.

I have found a workaround for the slow Maya issue. Maya chugging along and pinwheeling seems to only affect the account that is used to login when booting OSX. So to fix the issue do the following:

1. Set up a new account (System Preferences > Accounts)
2. Enable fast user switching so you can switch between account (System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options)
3. Use the secondary account when powering on the computer
4. Switch over to your main account and everything should work fine

OK so false alarm!

I posted before that I fixed the problem by deactivating the automatic GPU switch on my MBP, but it didn’t work. For some reason when I tried before it worked but now I opened Maya again and it has the same problem.

This is unacceptable.

Hi, I just tried to do this account thing, didn’t work for me.

I’m having a hadr time trying to fix this slow issue on maya 2011 and Snow Leopard.
I just got an 27” imac with all updates , intalled maya 2011 and it’s very slow...VERY CRAP..Why it doesn’t work good?
please autodesk do something or everybody will switch to other softwares.
I used to like Maya btu i’m starting to get tired of this issues.
tanx, waitng for reply.....