I’ve been running in Maya for a while and once a while I need to come to max to do some things. I have a big annoyance with it as its very slow. Every time I select object and go to edit poly mode ui lags like hell. Its as if he was opening each tab in ui 1 by 1 and refreshing entire UI as he does it. It takes like 10 seconds to open some ui, drives me crazy.
Does any1 else have that? Any solution for that awesomeness of AD?
Mine is pretty smooth, no lag.
Takes 8 seconds to open render settings window with scanline as renderer sigh…
We had a discussion about this a while back; it tends to happen over time for me as well, the issue seems worse if you have multiple instances of 3ds Max open. I’ve had cases where opening the material editor would take something like 10 seconds. It looked like cleaning up 3ds Max settings or reinstalling 3ds Max makes it fast, until it slows down after a while again. I’m not sure why this happens…
Best regards,
Vlado
Its Crazy ! I have fresh install of 3ds max and it lags as hell ! Just hands down :- ( I’m getting new workstation in next few weeks if that system will have the lag as well I dont know what I will do. Move back to max 9 ! 
I never have anything open but MAX. I have seen people have slow downs when chrome is open, which seems to take more RAM than MAX.
Humh I’ll try that. Restart pc and start just max. See if there is some software that cause the issue.
Try msconfig and uncheck everything that launches at startup.
Any mapped network drives? I know max really hates when you have ones that are not connecting.
I have moved to one computer and everything local, which solved a ton of my MAX issues. I purchased a machine with as many cores and ram as I could afford and I am loving it. Obviously, not as fast as 5 i7’s, but easier.
3dsmax 2009 - 32bit, everything opens instantly, no flickering, no lag.
Max 2011/12/13/14/15
Render scene dialog takes 10 seconds to open
Material editor takes 5 seconds to open
Jumping materials in the CME, is so slow..
So frustrating when max 2009 on my laptop works so smoothly and it only has 3gb of RAM and is 7 years old!
I remember something about the max UI having problems when Windows Aero UI is turned on. Maybe that´s worth a try in case it´s on.
Windows 8 has on Aero…
Best regards,
Vlado
View cube also caused issues
What if you unplug your network cable and try things. Sounds like a network lag to me (from something) are you using maxstart.max file to set options in your max?
The other obvious thing to check would be video card…imo.
Nope no maxstart.max file. But I disabled aero and that helped a little and lag is shorter but still there. I will try plunging network cable that’s a very good idea actually!
Max 2014 x64, windows 8.1 Pro, Chrome open, Rhinoceros open, Rendersettings open in 2 seconds, Materialeditor also, lots of plugins and scripts, and this is a 1 year old install. PC is attached with a NAS.
Videocard is a Quadro K4000, 64 GB RAM and Dual Xeon, dual SSD in Raid 0 for OS and programs.
So I don’t know, could be anything really.
Such lag typically is network related, or license server related.
No plugins no vray no anything fresh max install 
Graphics drivers, chipset drivers, general mobo drivers etc. all things to check.
My MAX UI does feel sluggish too but this is something that’s very on-and-off.