Maya Freeze when making Keys

[jocelynmh2004]

Hello! I'm currently have an issue on my PC where my Maya will freeze whenever I make a key to anything, whether it's a primitive shape all the way to a high rigged character. The primitive shape would freeze for maybe 2-4 minutes, but heavier rigs would freeze up to 10 minutes. I'm guessing it's because my graphics card is not included as one of the accepted GPU's for Maya's System Requirements, however I don't want to buy and a new graphics card if that isn't the issue. Is anyone able to help with this? (Autodesk support can't since I have the student license for Maya -_-) 

[Kahylan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

That really sounds like a graphic card issue. I'm not sure if there is a solution for this other than buying a better graphics card, since the problem seems to be quite extensive...

There are a few settings that you could try to change, that will maybe make it a bit better.

1) In Preferences -> Animation, turn "Evaluation Mode" to "DG"
2) In your Viewport Renderer, Viewport 2.0 Settings, turn of "GPU Instancing"
3) Turn off Cached Playback

As I said, I'm not sure that will help, but its worth a try. 

I hope it helps!

[jocelynmh2004]

Hello! Thank you so much! This did help with the freezing issue, the quality is quite low now unfortunately, there's definitely lag going on now, but so far the freezing has stopped! So it's a good temporary solution, I'll still be getting a new graphics card when I can tho! 

[pawelQZR9K]

Have the same problem but my maya crashes when I keyframing. This solution not helped for me.