3D layer disappears in After Effects CS6

When I turn a layer into a 3D layer it disappears. If i turn draft 3D on it will reappear, or if I preComp it will reappear. continuous rasterize is not on so its not that. Active camera is set in preview window, so its not front view thing.
this is driving me nuts ... any help is welcome.

1. Make sure you are looking at the Active Camera.
2. If that doesn't fix the problem tell us more about your comp and post a screenshot with all layers showing and the u key pressed twice to show us anything you have changed in the layer properties.

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Hi everyone, my first writing in adobe forums. I've contacted 3 adobe support agents, but I didn't get much help from them. Recently I switched from PC to Mac Pro, having Adobe Production Premium 5.5 for Windows and now upgraded to Adobe Production Premium 6.
First I tried a trial of After Effects CC and I was surprised how slow it is. Now I'm using AE CS6 full version and it's a bit better, but still pretty dang slow. (The video I made for adobe support explaining the problem is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jsZZpH0vYU )
To try to cut long story short. In the video adove, I've created couple of text layers and couple of shape layers. Made them 3D. Added a camera too. When I move the camera, everything is refreshing extremly slow. It's like you're having 100 3D layers and very busy scene,
and actually it's few most simplest 3D layers. The agents from adobe support told me to switch to half rez, or draft mode etc. But the problem is, I do not want to work in half rey, draft mode or something similar, with my configuration it should work pretty normal. Never
had these kind of problems in AE CS5.5. I tried everything, updated the software, updated my Mac OS, disabled global cache, even disabled multiprocessing etc. Btw, rendering is okay.
Is this the way CS6 is made? Is it supposed to be slow? Because, literally I got an answer from the agent that AECS6 is designed like that, in other words, to be slow
I really have no idea anymore how to make this work. I would like to get back to my lovely 5.5, but I only have license for Windows. If you guys could help me, I would really appriciate that.
I use:
* Mac Pro
* 2 x 2,4 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
* 64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
* ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB
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* Mac OS X 10.8.4
* I haven't had this problems ever before (using ae for quite some time)
* At the moment no 3rd party plugins installed
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• Actual CPUs that will be used - 2
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Neither has had any effect - the After Effects error still appears.
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http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2010/03/performance-tip-dont-oversched.html
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ive seen some videos in cs4 with live photoshop 3d and its beautiful
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Multimedia Drive SuperMulti DVD burner
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Keyboard Full-size island-style keyboard with numeric keypad
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http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct51264bf160b
I would try this a step at a time. Next would be the solid state drive. That would cost maybe $150. Post back if you need more help.
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