Max 2008 and Max 9 locks up on XP 64bit

[Dynedain]

Well, it's not an NVidia driver.

The Quadros are running ForceWare 93.71, and 162.65 (Autodesk certified is 162.50), and the GeForce is running 169.21

[Morbid Angel]

just something that occurred to me. Look in event viewer under administrator/systemtools/ and see if there is any kind of error is printed there.
actually the correct path would be control panel/administrative tools/event viewer

[Dynedain]

Yep, tried that route a while ago... nothing

[Morbid Angel]

ok, thinking about this...could this be license related? i.e. how is your max getting its license?
is it possible that somewhere it loses the license and crashes in a weird way?

[Dynedain]

They're all standalone licenses.

I just got off the phone w/ an Autodesk support rep, and from how I described the problem (completely Max lockup with no way to kill it, and no program redrawing), it's probably something associated with Max, like the licensing, but not the core of Max itself.

[Morbid Angel]

yes I thought so, it cant be hardware/driver related if it happens on multiple machines. What if you install max in trial mode and see?

[Dynedain]

Which is almost impossible once you've had a real installation without reformatting the machine.

[Morbid Angel]

no its not, I cant remember exactly, but max creates special folder ether in common or somewhere similar place, where it stores all the license info, once its all blown, and registry is cleaned up from any max presence it should be fine.

[Dynedain]

I could have sworn it was stored in the master boot record.

[Morbid Angel]

well I cant say for sure, last time I fought with max like that was in version 6, so things may have changed...

[Dynedain]

Well here's something new.

It appears only to happen if we've done a rendering.

We do all our renderings with the VRay frame buffer.

[lander]

I'm having a similar problem since lunch today. It's not a complete lockup but I'm having rea issues. It can take 10 minutes to redraw the mtrl editor and there are no fancy materials in there. Eventmanager says that Max has stopped responding. That is not really so since it does update only it takes forever. I can't kill the Mtrl editor either until it's done redrawing. Event manager also says that memory is good and the cpu is working at 4% Max using 0%. No wonder it takes forever All of this runnig on a Dell M70 laptop XP, Max 2008.

So if you find anything, I'm all ears.

[Dynedain]

That's a complete different problem then. There have been posts in this forum about slow material editor rendering.

[Sawyer]

I am having pretty constant crashes with my 8600. I am assuming its the video card I don't know for sure but its about 6-7 times a day. I was getting blue screens when I was playing with lights usually vray lights. I have had problems with opengl and direct 3d. I think the blue screens were with opengl. I was wondering if it was an error with the new viewport lighting display but thats just the one issue with the lighting/blue screens the crashing is pretty consistant there is just a lag and if I press a button a second time...crash.

I am using max 2008 on vista 64.