Thats a very good point. I didnt know that Maya 6 didnt support multi-threading. What you say makes sense.

I think the patch from MS is more an OS type patch than a game specific patch... so should work for all games i reckon.

Cant say if going to Vista will solve the problem but Vista was designed to...

You didnt say what OS you are running so none of this may be useful to you. XP is known to be not optimised for dual core cpu's and there is a patch from MS for this. It states in the patch that its...