no i didnt have 6.5 before...i just got 7.0...and i checked i have enough ram..

i have an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 Gtx graphics card. i dont usually dont have photoshop open when i use maya..

umm...well when i try to make a custom shape and i hold shift to make it, none of the imput boxes show up on the tab..also when i try to make my own texture from file it doesnt bring up the box to...