Hey y’all,

I just updated to MB 2009 SP1, there was good news and bad news. Good news is the AO viewport filter works, which I was super excited about. Bad news is there is a sculpting brushes lag (even at low subd. and simple material). I have to wait a second or so b/4 I can make another brush stroke. Which is very annoying. I have an ATi 1650 (256), and I’m running the driver from Jan. 2008 b/c at the time the latest driver (oct.08) from ATi was causing major brush lag.

Does anyone know if the latest driver released in Jan. 2009 works well with MB 2009 SP1? If anyone has any info please let me know.

ATi Latest driver:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

- thanks

PS: I did a search for this question earlier but found no answer, if this question has already been answered I apologize, please just point me to the post.

Hey Megs,

Did you find a fix to your problems?

I don’t mean to thread jack or anything. Just that I recently got in MB but shortly
after my HD 3870 died.

I’m debating between waiting for the RMA or pick up an Nvidia card and get it
over with.

megatron7904 07 February 2009 07:48 PM

Hey y’all,

I just updated to MB 2009 SP1, there was good news and bad news. Good news is the AO viewport filter works, which I was super excited about. Bad news is there is a sculpting brushes lag (even at low subd. and simple material). I have to wait a second or so b/4 I can make another brush stroke. Which is very annoying. I have an ATi 1650 (256), and I’m running the driver from Jan. 2008 b/c at the time the latest driver (oct.08) from ATi was causing major brush lag.

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Are you using one monitor or two?  If you are using two monitors make sure that it is set to one continuous desktop and not two individual monitors.  I think that is what is recommended and it does make a big difference with brush lag.

i had this same issue with my nvidia 8800 ultra but i ended up reformatting my PC(as i do far too often) and it stopped doing it. my guess is that there was something causing an issue outside of the video driver because i was having weird issues with PS CS4 as well but its fine now.

But yes i agree, the one second lag is annoying as hell.

oh and i currently have dual monitors and its working fine now.

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Q6700 Quad Core 2.67
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Thanks for the replies...I actually updated to the latest ATI driver. There is a slight lag at high polys but I think it’s something I can deal with it. I’m not using dual monitors but I soon will, I need a place for my menus, I’ll make sure to make it continuous. MB 09 SP1 is running pretty smoothly. The painting is amazing but Autodesk NEEDS to create a better palette system.

Glad to see things worked out.

So basically with the latest drivers and SP1, your ATI runs Mudbox good?

I’m probably going to get new card anyway. RMA will probably take too long and
I saw a few well priced 4870s and GTX260s

Thanks for the updates!

neptunes - yeah it works pretty well, Autodesk seems to be making efforts to have MB compatible with cards other than Nvidia. But if you are looking into getting a new card and you want to get the most out of MB maybe it’s best to find a Nvidia card that MB was built for (those can be pricey)....Good luck