OMG! Take a holiday and install 2014 SP5

[ior=0]

Max:
http://download.autodesk.com/us/supp...ax2014_SP5.msp

Design:
http://download.autodesk.com/us/supp...gn2014_SP5.msp

An unbelievably S L O W process...hope this one works better than the last.

[beestee]

Have yet to try this myself, but worth a shot:

http://www.maxunderground.com/archives/20777_speeding_up_3ds_max_service_pack_installatio ns.html

[alexyork]

It works. The update took about 1 minute on each of my machines using this cmd.

[glorybound]

the bat script that has been going around does it in seconds.

[ior=0]

It begs the question "what the F'ing F is the standard patch pissing about at then?"


Thanks for the tips though, I'll try and remember next patch.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

It begs the question "what the F'ing F is the standard patch pissing about at then?"


Thanks for the tips though, I'll try and remember next patch.

Its stealing ur bank,pc,live,details and sending it to AD to harvest u better

[ior=0]

Its stealing ur bank,pc,live,details and sending it to AD to harvest u better

subscription does that already...:¬) (not sure why I'm smiling though)

[kalamazandy]

It begs the question "what the F'ing F is the standard patch pissing about at then?"

Holy crap! I didn't know this existed, and I 100% agree with you.
Doesn't the installer first evaluate if there is enough storage space before installing, then do it Again after the install begins? I feel like that's a huge part of what takes so long. And I'm guessing it takes so long because it checks all the drives, including network locations.

Now to create an autohotkey file that I can send to people and it does everything for me. I don't know of another non-group-policy way to send it out to user's computers. This only works if cmd is opened with elevated controls right? Everyone but me and a few others has UAC turned on, so default CMD will be user, not admin.

[kalamazandy]

So I made a little update batch file to help this along a bit and thought I'd share it. I started one using autohotkey, and it works great.....if UAC isn't turned on. I found a way around it, but then hit a wall when I realized that it wouldn't let me type anything. If someone out there is great at AHK I'd be happy to share the file I created.

For bat files this works. WARNING: it WILL restart at the end without warning. And I got rid of the log. So don't do this with files open. They'll force quit.

It's not perfect, but it works for me. I didn't know how to put one if statement into another, so I had it create a text file to use as a yes/no variable to make sure Max is on a machine. This way I can just have a bunch of people run it on their machines. If max is installed, it gets updated. If not, no harm done.

Just change the paths, and you're set to go. If you make the script better, I'd appreciate you add it to the thread so everyone benefits from it.

if Exist "C:\maxUpdate5.txt(
exit
)
if Exist "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2014" (
ECHO max2014 >C:\max2014.txt
)
if Exist "C:\max2014.txt" (
ECHO maxUpdate5 >C:\maxUpdate5.txt
msiexec /update "\\svr2\Software\01_3D\3dsMax\2014\service packs\3dsMaxDesign2014_SP5.msp" /quiet
ECHO Max 2014 update 5 is installing.
PAUSE 
)