PSD Animating a 3D Object

Ok this might be a hardware problem but not sure.
I create a 3d object in PSD. stays nice and centered on grid. I can rotate and adjust no problem.
But then when I create the scene into a timeline and activate a stopwatch the object jumps to a different location on grid. Is it a bug, Bad graphics card. No idea but myself and another designer are having the same problem keeping us from animating any 3d objects. Both of us would be happy if we could create any object and spin it in place to create an animation.
Please help.
We have AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB

I have same problem. When I create object in Photoshop - for example Cube Wrap all is ok until I activate animation. After that object starts to jump to different locations. What's more - sometimes parts of the object are displayed still in the original location.
I use Photoshop CC, card is GeForce GT540M/PCIe/SSE2 with updated driver, system is windows 7 with all updates.
Below is screenshot of oddly displayed 3d box wrap. It was supposed to sit in the middle of the grid as on the next screenshot, made before turning on animation stopwatch.

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