Boy, am i a happy bunny now, FIXED IT.

The problem was the graphics drivers, strange concidering i just changed the cpu and it was fine before that.

I was useing version-97.92, which worked...

Thanks but i pritty much ruled all that out as i have tried it on 3 different hard drives, the drive i use for maya, my games drive (which also has everything up to date) and also a spare old 20gb...

Thanks for the help peeps but i have given up for now.

I was able to borrow a Vista disc but when i tried it out i found it very unstable with Maya, e.g. when you press space the viewpoint went...

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I did make sure i went for the same speed, single core 2.2ghz, dual 2.2ghz x2.
I used to model on an 1.3ghz and that was smooth.

I may be able to borrow a friends disc, well i have fixed...

Thanks for the reply, i'll try the MS patch whan i get home.

It's XP SP2, sorry about that.

I did try out the AMD optimizer and it made no difference.

One thing i tried this morning was that...

The problem i've got is i have just upgraded my cpu to an AMD 4200+ X2, dual core.
When in the main viewpoints, it is now very slow and takes what seems forever to just rotate the camera around.
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Hi,
Although my system is a lil dated now, i currently use an GeForce 7800 GS card, no problems.
Great for games and for modelling.

Have also used a while nack a 5700FX, was great also.

Can't...

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I have modeled him in about the same way Kurt modeled the dragon in the tut's.

Just to give you an idea, here is a screen from right at the beginning....

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I started off with nurbs, then poly's then back and forth with sub-d's, i.e. the head was 2 spheres and the neck was a cylinder.

This model is when he is in disguise, for racing etc....

Hi everyone, after a loooong break, i have started modeling again.

I'm currently working on Beau from the Dragon Booster cartoon series, please tell me what you think of him so far..

I know i...