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Here’s the symptoms:
* When first opening Mudbox it takes takes about 30 seconds before Mudbox runs relatively smoothly. It hangs, stutters and freezes badly that half a minute.
* But the main problem is that every 10 seconds while doing anything (moving, sculpting, painting) with any scene (default head, plane of 32 faces, ...) Mudbox hangs for about 2-3 seconds. Even opening a menu lags in the same manner as any other action.
This on a 24 core 2.4GHz Xeon with 12 GB RAM. The card is an nVidia Quadro FX 1800, which might be the problem, though it’s on the Autodesk Certified Hardware list for Mudbox and I’ve got the same problem on the Quadro FX 4500 and the GeForce 8400 GS. I’ve tried the suggested nVidia drivers and pretty much every version released since.
I’ve got the same problem in Mudbox 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Tried all possible nVidia settings.
The strange thing is that firstly it doesn’t matter what’s in the scene. An empty scene has the same problems. Also the intervals between the freezes is from what I can tell extremely consistent… about 10 seconds…
Did anyone have this problem before? Frankly I’m at a loss here.
Any help here would be hot, thanks!
W
*Update* I’ve tested this on multiple high-end workstations with the same result on each and every one of them. I’m starting to think this is a Windows 7 (64bit) problem. And more precisely the SP1… I had never seen the problem before until I showed up to my new job, where the workstations were installed just recently. My workstation at home has had Windows 7 for a while, so I guess that’s no SP1 yet, which was released in Febuary… I’m going to verify this fact, I’ll post my findings here.
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