Autodesk 657B1-000110-S001 - Maya

Autodesk® Maya® 2009

Graphics Hardware Qualification

Microsoft®Windows®Platform

Last updated: March 30, 2009.

Readme First

The information contained in the Readme First document applies to all

hardware qualification executed on the Autodesk Maya 2009 software product

release and should be acknowledged by all users prior consulting the

qualification charts.

What’s New

Make sure you look at our latest additions to this document, which are: new

NVIDIA®FX 3800 & FX 1800 and ATI™ FirePro v7750 graphics cards results and

caveats.

Contents

Readme First

What’s New

Graphics Cards & Drivers

Caveats & Limitations

Operating System Dependent &

Miscellaneous Issues

Notes on Operating Systems

Stereoscopy Qualified Hardware

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Graphics Cards & Drivers

The following table lists the graphics cards and driver versions for the Maya 2009 software

product release.

Table Legend

Qualified.

Qualified with caveats. Refer to Caveats & Limitations.

Qualification planned. Results coming shortly.

Supported (although not yet officially qualified in our lab. Qualification

may or may not be planned)

Qualification failed due to serious problems.

Un-tested. No qualification planned – not applicable / not available.

Graphics Card & Driver Qualifications for Autodesk Maya 2009 for Windows

Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista Business SP1

Graphics Card Driver 32-bit OS 64-bit OS 32-bit OS 64-bit OS

NVIDIA

Quadro®FX 5800 178.46 

Quadro FX 4800 178.46 

Quadro FX 3800 182.08 

Quadro FX 1800 182.08 

Quadro FX 4700x2 175.51 

Quadro FX 1700 169.96 

Quadro FX 3700 169.96 

Quadro FX 4600 169.96 

Quadro FX 5600 169.96 

Quadro FX 1500 169.96 

Quadro FX 3500 169.96 

Quadro FX 4500 169.96 

Quadro FX 4500x2 175.51 

Quadro FX 5500 169.96 

GeForce®GPUs — See Note 1 in Readme First

ATI

FirePro™ 3D v8700 8.543.1.4 

Graphics Card & Driver Qualifications for Autodesk Maya 2009 for Windows

Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista Business SP1

Graphics Card Driver 32-bit OS 64-bit OS 32-bit OS 64-bit OS

FirePro 3D v8700 8.543 

FirePro 3D v7750 8.543.1.4 

FirePro 3D v5700 8.543.1.4 

FirePro 3D v5700 8.543 

FirePro 3D v3700 8.543.1.4 

FirePro 3D v3700 8.543 

FireGL™ v7700 8.502 

FireGL v8650 8.502 

FireGL v8600 8.502 

FireGL v7600 8.502 

FireGL v5600 8.502 

FireGL v3600 8.502 

FireGL v7350 8.502 

Radeon GPUs — See Note 2 in Readme First

Caveats & Limitations

The following table provides a description of NVIDIA graphics cards caveats and limitations.

NVIDIA Graphics Cards Caveats and Limitations

Graphics Card Driver OS Limitation / Caveat Status /

Workaround

QuadroFX

1700, 3700,

5800, 4800

(Family 700

and above)

178.46,

169.96,

169.61,

169.31

Windows XP

Professional

SP2

Bug #301329 - CGFX Shaders

may not display properly during

scene playback or upon using

the Viewcube to rotate the

viewport.

—

The following table provides a description of ATI graphics cards caveats and limitations.

ATI Graphics Cards Caveats and Limitations

Graphics Card Driver OS Limitation / Caveat Status /

Workaround

ATI Graphics Cards Caveats and Limitations

Graphics Card Driver OS Limitation / Caveat Status /

Workaround

FirePro v3700,

v5700

8.543 Windows XP

Pro 32-bits

Bug #307979 "Using the paint

brush cursor in overlay mode

may leave artifacts"

FireGL V7700 8.502 Windows Vista

Business 64-

bit

Bug #305728

Objects textures turn to black

upon painting on them. As a

result, paint strokes are not

displayed in the perspective

viewport.

—

FireGL v7700,

FireGL v8650,

FireGL v8600,

FireGL v7600,

FireGL v5600,

FireGL v3600

8.502 Microsoft

Windows XP

Professional

SP2 32-bit &

64-bit

Bug #304985

Paint Effects brushes that use

geometry may cause artifacts to

appear in the viewport.

Issue

reported to

vendor.

FireGL v8650 8.502 Windows XP

Professional

SP2 &

Windows Vista

Business

Bug #308189

When using graphically

intensive scenes (large number

of particles, cgfx shaders, high

quality viewport) Maya may

occasionally hang.

—

Operating System Dependent & Miscellaneous Issues

The following limitations/caveats are still being investigated. Autodesk has not identified the

precise combination of factors involved. Please refer to the “Release Notes” for further details

on known issues with Maya.

Limitation / Caveat

Bug Number OS Description / Workaround

284763 Windows Vista When working in the Paint Effects Panel, you may notice

that the display does not refresh properly. This may

include multiple copies of brushes being seen, or paint

effects strokes not updating/disappearing after a new

stroke is drawn.

277831 Windows Vista The NURBS texture placement window may draw

incorrectly and/or result in other redraw artifacts.

Notes on Operating Systems

•Maya 2009 has not been qualified on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3.

•Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2). After installation of Service Pack 2,

Maya or its component programs may not launch successfully. If this occurs, you may

either unblock the program via the Windows Firewall Security Alert dialogue, or add it

as an Exception in the Exceptions Tab in the Windows Firewall dialogue box. For more

information, please see the Microsoft Update at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242&product=windowsxpsp2

•Autodesk is aware of a problem whereby the system can pause or temporary hang

when some of Maya’s toolbar menus are being triggered. Should you encounter this

problem, please send a message to me.3d.qualification@autodesk.com.

•We do not recommend saving data directly from Maya to NFS or Novell Netware or

other remote mounted file systems. We have received several reports of data

corruption when saving in this method although we have been unable to reproduce

this. We strongly recommend that you save the files locally and then copy the data to

the mounted storage system.

•If the Maya tear-off pull-down menus don't display properly on Windows XP with UI

schemes, set UI preference to Windows Classic Style. Start > Settings > Control Panel >

Display > Windows Classic.

•It is strongly suggested to select the global presets: “Autodesk Maya” in the global

settings under Manage 3D settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

•When installing the ATI FireGL drivers, an Audio driver for HDMI audio output is

installed by default, this may cause your current sound configuration to no longer

function properly. To avoid this problem, you can either avoid installing the HDMI

driver or disable the sound driver in the Device Manager.

Stereoscopy Qualified Hardware

For information on the graphics hardware qualification for stereo support, please consult the

Autodesk Maya 2009 Graphics Hardware Qualification for Stereo Support for the Microsoft

Windows Platform document.

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