I can't see the handles with the arrows in Maya

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# 1 16-05-2005 , 04:23 PM

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I can't see the handles with the arrows in Maya

Ok guys,

Here is the prob. I can't see the arrows of the manipulators (scale, rotate,move) in all 4 views. I can only see them in 1 of the 4 views.
I already tried the + and - keys but that only scale or shrink the handles. And it is definately not a video driver issue.
Well, you can see from the pic for yourself.
Let me know of some solutions. Thanks in advance.
tvholicjames

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# 2 16-05-2005 , 04:24 PM

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I sweared I attached a pic...anyway here it is.

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# 3 16-05-2005 , 08:19 PM

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Two possible reasons for this:

1. It happened to me once when I changed my display settings from 32bit to 16.
2. If the above doesn't help then it could be your graphics card.

Maya doesn't like ATI

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# 4 17-05-2005 , 05:23 AM

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Sigh. I think I have a ATI video card afterall. So that is why I can't render paint effects. What is the cheapest decent video card out there that is compatable with Maya?
Thanks in advance.

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# 5 17-05-2005 , 05:35 AM

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The cheapest card that I think will work is the Geforce 5200FX, but don't take my word for it. It might be worth while doing a search on this forum first before spending the $$

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# 6 17-05-2005 , 11:02 AM

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try lowering the resolution.

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# 7 17-05-2005 , 01:35 PM

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Cheapest card would probably be a GeForce 4 TI4200 with the soft quadro patch applied to it. I use that and maya runs perfect.

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# 8 17-05-2005 , 10:53 PM

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Thanks guys. I already reduce the resolution to 16, but it didn't work either. And someone said my card maybe too old. So I guess I'll invest $100 or something. Thanks again.

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# 9 18-05-2005 , 06:51 AM

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Lower the resolution not the bit depth. Try something 1152x864. For some reason Maya doesn't seem to like really high resolutions.

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# 10 20-05-2005 , 09:38 AM

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I happend to once, and it got fixed by reisnstalling maya (but I had to delete maya folder under c://documents and settings/...
if it will bother you that much, you can try this.
Oh, and that happend after I had to restart my comp, while maya was still running (and in that keys maya always gets funky).

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