"rare" is what autodesk is calling it! I have had this specific on 100% of the systems I have installed maya on since maya 2010! That to me is not rare!

They call it rare so that they can...

Throughout all this I can only say good things about EVGA. I started with a pair of gtx 265 2GB DDR3 cards I bought over 4 years ago. There were top of the line FTW models and did come with a...

I hear you. I am in the same boat. I do not play games a lot but I do play them. I like things like starcraft, and I used to play wow and rift quite a bit but don't really have the time anymore. ...

Thanks Dave because it's been killing me. I cannot get any work done and it's frustrating as hell because I cannot predict when it will stop refreshing. And now with 2013 I have to kill the maya...

Okay just got off the line with evga and they are willing to swap the 480 for a 570 to see if this fixes the refresh problem.

I have to admit that in all of this I am very impressed with the...

That is not an acceptable choice and it's unfortunate if that is Autodesk's position!

Fortunately, I have other choices for 3D applications and Autodesk does not own all of them yet!

So what you are saying is I can spend money and buy a new card and it does not even matter if it's a gefroce or a radeon and I can see the exact same problem. Do you see the dilemma there and why I...

ah crap so you have seen the behavior on both radeon and geforce cards? Are you replacing the graphics cards with a different model? I'd be totally depressed if you are saying you can replace the...

Thanks ND. I have given a lot of thought about rolling back to 2009 or earlier but there are a couple features that were added to modeling that would be lost and I also do more then just model. If...

ND - the undocumented maya env variable "MAYA_GEFORCE_SKIP_OVERLAY" iwas removed with the QT api. So from maya 2010 onward it does nothing! Which once again leads me to believe it's something about...