VFB and Vray log windows very slow in Max2012

[PixelJockey]

Interaction with the Vray frame buffer and Vray log windows are really slow with my installation of Max2012. Every interaction (closing the winodws, moving the windows, etc) takes about 5 seconds. No other windows have this behavior in Max that I have run across. With an SSD drive for my boot and application drive my system is pretty darn quick except for this. I'm wondering if I should use the previous FirePro driver.

Max2012 SP1
Vray 2.10.01
ATI FirePro 7800 (8.83.5.4) - using Nitrous driver.
Windows 7 64bit
16GB RAM

[vlado]

Is it ok with the DirectX viewport driver? Does anything change if you turn off the Progressive mode for the viewports?

Best regards,
Vlado

[leehumphries]

Sorry for jumping on this thread - but i have been having similar issues.

Hopefully it is the same

Max 2012 Design - Vray 2 (latest version)

My problems are when i end a render, the Vray FB takes ages to come to life again,delay of 5-10 secs then all comes good again, try and move it to another part of the screen and the same thing happens.
At first i thought it was a pc issue - but having a Boxx 8550 - Dual Xeon 2.26 with 12 gb i thought this cannot be right. I have been close to calling Boxx and demanding this be fixed.

So now i see someone else has similar problems i am interested to know what the problem is. I am on Nitrous but no realistic shading on - just wireframe.Constantly lags with VFB

[leehumphries]

Vlado - Have just changed to D3D and all seems back to normal - must be Nitrous causing the delays

[PixelJockey]

Reverting to D3D does fix the VFB/Log issue, but doesn't provide very good viewport performance on my machine. Thankfully disabling progressive refinement fixes the problem with Nitrous. Whew!

[Morne]

Thankfully disabling progressive refinement fixes the problem with Nitrous.

Where do I find this setting?

Is it the same as "Improve Quality Progressivley" under viewport configuration?

[scottsch]

Where do I find this setting?

Is it the same as "Improve Quality Progressivley" under viewport configuration?

Looks to be the case. Disabling it in all 4 viewports allows faster response in minimizing and moving the framebuffer and log window. Weird issue, and very annoying.

[vlado]

Yep, we'll be looking into this. We did not notice the issue originally as it did not occur on the machines we tested max 2012 on...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Jiri.Matys]

I never have a problem with VFB. But now in max 2012 with large scene, when I stop rendering, VFB cant be selected for a while and when I close it, it reopen by itself and cant be selected for a while again and this is for some 5-10 times, really annoying! When it render till end, its ok.

[vlado]

It's all part of the same issue...

Best regards,
Vlado