viewport glitch / bug

[rogue3d]

posted this at The Area, but thought I'd try here as well.

 

since installing max design 2012 on windows 7, I've been encountering a problem that I can't seem to figure out. It seems related to the material/map browser. After working in max for a while and opening and closing the the map browser (I use the old configuration) I've noticed that if I move a window (any window - render window, layers manager, render setup, map browser, etc...) The max debugger window opens up and every tool bar not currently visible becomes visible and is floating on top of my screen.

 

The weird thing is that none of the toolbars are actually open. Clicking on the "X" does not close them, I have to select the toolbar and drag it a little bit and it simply disappears. In addition, if I render nothing happens, max will hang and never begin to render. Only after cancelling the render and then closing the debugger (which does not come to the top, so most of the time it isn't visible except that max on the taskbar shows two windows open, which is the only indication that the debugger is open).

 

After this occurs 3 or 4 times while working the 5th time, max crashes. It's very annoying and happening more frequently. I thought it was a graphics driver issue or graphics card memory issue and tried different drivers as well as swapping cards, neither worked. Also tried direct X and nitro , no difference. I've read and tried all the wacky windows 7 tricks concerning Aero theme and performance settings and none of that has helped either.

 

my specs are:

 

max design 2012

release 14.0 SP2

 

Boxx Workstation

duel xeon e5440 @ 2.83GHz

8GB ram

Nvidia quadro fx 1700 (driver 7614)

win 7 64bit SP1

 

Any help / ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Edited November 2, 2011 by rogue3d

[NeWAcEiN]

close all floating windows now goto customize- load custom UI scheme, and c if it works. and one more thing there is one more option in max, lock UI chk that as well. it might work too!!!!!!!!!!

under customize tab there is UI tab listed in there u can chk show floating toolbar's c if its checked click on it uncheck and reply back!!!!!

Edited November 3, 2011 by NeWAcEiN

[rogue3d]

thanks, I'll give it a try.