3ds max 2010 design crashes on file open

[Morbid Angel]

So I got this strange problem. I have these scenes which work fine under windows xp 32 bit and max 2010 design x32 bit.
Once I try to open them under windows 7 64 bit max 2010 design sp1 x64 it just simply crashes.
Any idea why this happens? If I open those scenes under winxp again they are fine...

[sea2stars]

For shits and giggles, have you tried opening the file through Max 32bit in Windows 7?

[Morbid Angel]

yeah in winxp it opens fine. Its totally weird. It does have a plugin missing (treestorm) could that be the cause?

sorry misread your post. It does not open in max under win7.

[sea2stars]

Really odd. Does merging crash it too?

[Morbid Angel]

i have not tried. I have read on autodesk forum that there is some sort of compression option that max is using when it saves the files and that could be the cause. I will try today and see if that works. I can see compression being an issue between 32 bit and 64 bit...but if I save the files under win7 64 bit, I cant open them on another machine with similar specs.

[sea2stars]

I've never had any issues with the Max file compression between 32bit and 64bit. Then again I haven't tried opening files between XP and 7 yet. About the only issue I've seen is uncollapsed booleans created in 32bit Max causing issues in 64bit.

[flino2004]

have you tried "merge"?