I find it very hard to believe that it would be the graphics card when the tools show up in the prespective view . . . . There is no logic to that arguement. I am more inclined to believe that it is a MEL scripting error, or (worse yet) a internal coding error within Maya). More likely a MEL scripting error . . . . the tool shows up in one window, but not the other three . . . It would probably be solved by either updating MAYA or finding the coding in MEL for the windows and comparing to find out what the PERSPECTIVE window coding is doing that the other three are not. . . .
That's my 2 cents, for whatever it is worth. :bandit:
"The Sage as an Astronomer: If you still see the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge." Friedrich Nietzsche