Well, my computer seems to be the problem. For some reason it can't handle much graphics...only small projects. It's like my processing power has been cut in half or less. My graphics card seems to be fine and so does everything else...it's really weird. Maybe my computer is on it's last leg. Whatever it is, it's effecting everything, not just Maya.

I have two 2.8 GHz pentium D processors and 3GB RAM. I also have an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX video card. So it's not like I don't have a decent computer.

Anyway, I'm still working on it.