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 process which corrupts the preferences. So it's just a bloody nightmare.

It's made even more frustrating by the fact that is is supposedly a very rare problem but yet I have had it with every version of maya since 2010. I never saw this issue before 2010 but I really do not want to roll all the way back to 2009. In fact I would gladly take back every bug I have EVER experienced with maya if I could just make this one bug GO AWAY! It's unbearable!

I certainly would blow a major gasket if I dumped money on a quadro and this problem still persisted! Not that I could afford a decent quadro or would be willing to gimp my systems DX11 / game performance just to get Maya working.