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Maple gets unresponsive with Nvidia drivers passt 610

michaelgrabowski — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:06:10 Z

If I install any Nvidia driver, that was released after 610.x, eg. 616.x or 617.x, Maple gets kind of unresponsive.

Example 1: I have an empty worksheet. Then I enter one line, like "y:=1+2" and after that, sometimes I can't press return. Nothing happens. If I now close Maple, using the X on the upper right, nothing more happens.

Example 2: I have a new, unsaved worksheet with nothing spectacular in it, just one simple line, and I want to close it with the X in the worksheet tabs. Then Maple asks me, if I want to save it. When I no click on "No", nothing more happens. The tab remains open. Now I can click the X in the tab bar again, and Maple will ask me the next time, if I want to save. Then I again click on "No" and the document is still open. - I could repeat this for hours, the result will always be the same.

Exmaple 3: I have a new document and entered one single term. If I now press the Enter-Key, nothing happens. The cursor remains in the first line. I still can edit the term without any problems. But as Enter does not work, I cannot do anything with this term.

In all cases, I used as example, Maple seems not to hang completely. You can switch between tabs, you can scroll through the ribbons, you get dialog-boxes. But it seems, as if Maple has stopped to respond to commands.

If I now revert to the Nvidia driver 610.88, everythins works fine without any problems. All three examples are working, as a user would expect.

Shortcut hints with the ribbon interface

C_R — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:06:46 Z

The former Maple UI displayed shortcut-keys in the menu entries. There was no need to consult the help system and good overview of possible menu control alternatives was provided.

In the new ribbon interface, such hints are not given anymore (if I am not mistaken).

Suggestion:
The information of shortcut keys could be added after the mouse-over text. For example Crtl+O after "Open a file"

For me, attaching the shortcut-key to the corresponding menu item is the most intuitive way to look up this information. Adding text is probably less invasive then graphical design changes, hence this pragmatic suggestion.

Alternatively, AI could provide the information but simple prompts (like "shortcut to open a file in Maple" or "list all keyboard shortcuts for Maple under Windows") did not work for me. A waist of time, credits and energy for nothing. Somehow it is difficult for to todays AIs to identify that there is a help page (not easy to find for beginners and me in Maples help system, IMO) that contains all information needed:
?worksheet,reference,hotwin

3D plot of a Gaussian function, as with Matlab

lemelinm — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:17:15 Z

What I want in fact is to do the plot in 3D that you can see by looking at the image I have insert (Gauss Fct 3D with Plane.png). The important part of the plot is to reproduce the grid of the xz plane and yz plane with the plot in bue and orange. That is what I would like to do when I plot the gaussian fct exp(-(x^2+y^2)). Can it be done?

Thank you in advance. If it is not possible, I will ask for that in the beta forum.

Mario

Calculating an angular momentum vector

Earl — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:40:07 Z

Procedure MassRot in this worksheet animates the motion of two beads sliding without friction on a closed wire loop.

My question is stated in comments in the procedure where the beads' Angular Momentum vectors are calculated.

Beads_sliding.mw

How to copy 2-D Input with comments to plaintext?

C_R — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:26:56 Z

On my installations I can neither convert nor copy/paste code with comments from 2D-Math to 1D without loosing the comments.
Also pasting to Word removes the comments.

Is that a known behaviour? Any workarounds?

Download copy_comments.mw

ExaktAI Workspace, beta testing open to everybody

ecterrab — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:54:49 Z

Mathematics and physics are evolving disciplines. AI is increasingly becoming an active participant in that evolution, producing results at a speed and scale that are difficult to follow without appropriate computational tools.

In the ExaktAI project we are addressing two related issues: the reliability problem of AI mathematics through computational validation, and maximizing human participation in checking, understanding and extending the results.

For the latter, we developed the ExaktAI Workspace.

The Workspace is a full computational-mathematics document environment in which one can follow, inspect, modify and extend AI-generated mathematics, or simply do the mathematics directly. Of particular relevance here, the Workspace can run Maple directly when Maple is installed.

The public beta is now open. I would be particularly interested in feedback and suggestions, both about the Maple integration and about the broader ideas for keeping us, the humans, actively involved and increasingly participating in AI-mathematics developments.

Edgardo S. Cheb-Terrab
ExaktAI
Research Fellow Emeritus at Maplesoft.