I too seem to be plagued with render problems lately. At forst it would crash on running FChek. Then, it crashes on rendering using Mental Ray. Now, even just a straight render is killing it. Total lock up, gotta reboot. I'm thinking this could be a video drivers issue, yes? Never really had this problem before I reformatted because of that darn virus. Got all the newest drivers installed. Now Maya just dies on renders.

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